Transcript 0:01 Everybody, welcome back to the Well Struck Podcast. Today on the docket, Man City. Are they the most evil, cheating team of all time? 0:11 And if we're gonna talk about villains, how about each of us make a starting 11 with villains from movies and TV. Coming up next. [upbeat music] Astonishing. Crown the new Premier League kings. Torres, oh. 0:28 [laughs] Oh. League title. Champions. And the Crooks. That's right. It... [laughs] All right. 0:46 That's right, it's the Well Struck Podcast, the football podcast brought to you by soccer people. I'm your host Kevin. With me tonight as always, the peanut butter to all of our jelly- [laughs]... Mr. Dexter Remy. 1:00 My brothers. [laughs] And hello, podcast friends out there. That seemed vaguely racist. You know, my brothers, this is true. [laughs] It wasn't meant to be, but sure. [laughs] I love it, though. I loved it. 1:14 And of course, the man of the people, for the people, uh, and very often against the people, it's my brother Sean Stafford. Ah, hell yeah. I hate people, but I like being around people. It's weird. 1:26 I don't know how to explain it. Yeah. [laughs] Boy, so we are, uh, well and truly, firmly in the middle of the international break. Um, you guys watch any football this weekend? 1:41 I watched highlights of Spain-England, and that was it. Yeah, I watched the first half of Spain-England, very entertaining. So- I watched the highlights later... absolutely entertaining game. Uh, 1:54 Spain came out, you know, shot out of a cannon. Uh, took the lead in, I don't know, it's like seven minutes in, four minutes in, something like that. But, uh, England worked their way back in. 2:08 Get, you know, leveled, um, or equalized I guess is, is the proper term there. [laughs] Uh, and then we're on top. No, but we're soc- we're, we're soccer people, we can say however we want. You can say equalized. 2:17 Like they- They tied it up... they tied the game, mate. Um- Tied the game. Bro, did you even see them tie it? Like, bro. [laughs] Uh, so they got themselves back on terms. Uh, go up 2-1, and then, uh, win a penalty. 2:35 Harry Kane steps up, normally reliable Harry Kane, and just absolutely murdered the crossbar. I mean, it- Mm... owed him money. Mm. He just like pounded it off the crossbar. 2:47 Uh, which- I'll say, if you're gonna miss, though, if... That's an acceptable miss. If you're gonna miss, I want you to miss high. I, I'm fine with that miss. I'm fine with that. Yeah. 2:56 You'd, you'd never look more a mug than missing like a, a Panenka or some like chipped- [laughs]... you know, Jorginho hop, skip, and a jump- [laughs]... like nonsense, and the goalie stands there and catches it. 3:07 So yeah, if you're gonna miss, fucking Alan Shearer it. Hit it as hard as you can. You miss, you miss. You know, you don't- That be- that was three... It was three inches high. It was three inches. 3:16 At three inches lower, that clangs in, he's good and he looks great. To quote Gordon- And there was a slight, a slight slip on, on his part anyway, too. 3:22 Something happened there when, when he was, uh- Oh, honestly, I think it... Hon- if he had scored that, I did see the highlight of this. If he had scored that, I think it's coming back for a double touch 3:30 Yeah, he would've, they would've retaken it. 'Cause I think- He did touch it twice... he knocked it, I think he knocked it off- Yeah... his plant foot as he slid into it. Oh. Absolutely. 3:36 But, uh, to quote Gordon Bombay, "Two inches the other way..." [laughs] Are you Bloody Ducks-ing it? Yeah. There's a quote, it's Coach Charlie, uh, Charlie Conway, "Two inches the other way, you miss completely." 3:48 So- [laughs]... swings and roundabouts. Um, but after that, uh, it was all Spain. Uh, they, uh, just absolutely dominated. Um, all but, you know, all but the midfield. 4:00 It was a very interesting midfield battle, 'cause like usually you'd expect Rodri over, um, Elliott to, to absolutely manhandle Elliott in the middle, Elliott Anderson in the middle. But 4:12 Elliott Anderson was very impressive. I was actually like, "Oh, I, I actually see what they spent the money on, um, for a loan for half a season until they have to sell him and everyone else." But we will get to them. 4:22 [laughs] Um, but yeah, it was a good game. I, I, from- Go ahead... I, I'll say from the highlights, Spain looked like they should've scored six. Like 3-2 was... That is kind to England. 4:35 They, they were, they were in on goal over, and over, and over again. And you've, you, you texted it to us, but I'll bring it up here 'cause I fully agree. 4:45 Any of these fools comparing Bukayo Saka to Lamine Yamal is, at this point, blasphemy. Mm. Like at this point it's... Man, d- you could pretend like we don't got eyes. You pretend we can't see nothing. 4:56 Like you pretend we're not looking at the game. Like I get it. Like, and you can't even be like, "Ooh, Saka's old." He's not. What is he, 26, 27? 26. 26, I think. And, and he's already... 5:06 Like, and part of it is, I, I, I'll give him this credit, I'll give him this. If he played in a system that Yamal was allowed to play in, I bet he'd have a lot more legs. 5:15 I feel like Arteta has used and abused what he is good at. And look, he's good tracking back. He's definitely a g- if you want your winger to play a lot of defense, Saka's your man. Well, you know what? 5:27 But you've sapped, you've sapped everything out of him going forward. Look, look, E- you know, England's fourth in the world. I think they deserve to f- be fourth in the world. Yeah. I don't think they did anything... 5:37 I don't think they deteriorated since the World Cup, to be honest. No. They just played- Yeah... the world champions, you know? No, yeah, no. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 5:45 They, they played the world champions and they missed their shot. That's, that's what I'm saying. Yeah. You know, if- They had a chance to go up... 5:51 Marc Guéhi kicks the ball forward and didn't try to do whatever he was doing. [laughs] I don't know what he was trying to do. You know what I'm saying? [laughs] If that didn't happen- You know? 6:02 Harry, if he g- hit that penalty... I think if he hit that penalty, it would have mentally did something. 6:07 Exactly A little bit more desperation on Spain's part, but, uh, yeah You go up 3-1 in a Nations League game that Spain really doesn't care anything about, other than keeping their streak alive- Undefeated, yeah, undefeated, undefeated streak, yeah... 6:20 um, but yeah- Mm... 3-1, that game's totally different, different story. Once- Yeah... Kane missed that, the, the momentum was, was completely gone. Yeah. 6:30 Um, but yeah, I mean, going back- Spain said, "Okay, we can come back." Going back to Saka, give me Saka. You know, I'll, I'll be clear. I don't hate Saka, I hate- It's a, it's a weak comparison... 6:39 what Arsenal fans think Saka is. Yeah. I don't care about Bukayo Saka. As a player, he's perfectly good and, and acceptable, and I would have him... I'd have him on Chelsea right now. I'd have him on Chelsea right now. 6:49 I wouldn't be comparing him- I'd take him over Pedro Neto every day... to Salah or Yamal. What? I'd take him over Pedro Neto every day. Oh, yeah, yeah, immediately. I, but I wouldn't... 6:56 I'm not gonna compare him to Yamal and, like, the greats of all time. Like, you can just be a good player. You don't have to be the best player who's ever existed. Exactly. 7:05 Like, there's only a couple who are the best, [laughs] and they're called the best because, I don't know, they're the best. And you can just be good. 7:14 There's a lot of really good guys who you forget about from time to time, and then you get to play the game in 20 years, where you just name random players and you're like, "Oh, Bukayo Saka, great call." 7:23 Like, you know, "Ooh, Jason Bay, nice." Like, "Oh, Ray Ordonez, great." Like, you get to do fun stuff like that. You mentioned Ray Ordonez. 7:31 [laughs] Yeah, I had, I had to pick a random one, 'cause I, I pick Jason Bay and everyone, no one will know who that is. But- [laughs]... everybody knows who Ray Ordonez is The most underrated shortstop of all time... 7:39 now. Yeah. But no, that's exactly the point I was gonna make, was that I don't- Yeah, it's behind... It's, it's not to- I don't dislike Bukayo Saka. I think Bukaya, Bukayo Saka is a v- is a, an A player. 7:48 I think he's a better than average player. I think he's probably one of the best three, maybe best five wingers in the Premier League. But that's in the Premier League. 7:57 When you put him up against the best wingers in the world, maybe he's- And the best wingers of all time... 8:03 maybe he's top 10 right now, but for, for ability, but not for end product, 'cause there are guys who I think have probably less g- like, genetically gifted ability, who produce more than, than Bukayo Saka does. 8:19 Um, but like, you can't tell me that Michael Olise and Lamine Yamal and Désiré Doué, uh, are, are not better wingers. [laughs] You just, you- Just, the, the account is unbelievable... 8:31 you can't sit there and tell me that... let's just, yeah, just watch them. Just watch. Just watch. Yeah. 8:35 So, um- And again, our, uh, Saka's being asked to do different things than those guys, and I fully, I fully understand that. 8:41 And I'm partly like, that goes into my criticism where, you know, that folds into a criticism of Arteta being like, "Use this guy properly." Like, if you think he's Yamal, use him like Yamal. 8:52 If you think he's Salah, use him like Salah. Don't use him like some guy we're gonna use for five years who I wanna, you know, be industrious on defense and maybe hit a cross in. 9:02 Like, you can find guys cheaper than that. Like, [laughs] you don't need to pay Saka to do that. Y'all see this? 9:08 I love that we started this with a, "Hey, it's gonna be about Man City," and immediately, [laughs] "Let's shit on fucking Arsenal." Well, you know, you know what, though? Y'all, y'all see this back here, though? 9:15 Like you said [laughs] What is this dog doing? [laughs] I don't... I don't know. He's been doing it all day. What's the dog doing? [laughs] That's not even... Oh, you know what? What? 9:23 There's marshmallows on those sticks. Those, those- Ah, good job. Go get it... those are marshmallow roasting sticks... go get it, Salty. Salty, go get it. Well, I mean, the guy, look, the g- shout out my dad. 9:31 My dad loves Saka. He always brings up Saka for some reason. He's an Arsenal fan Well, I would love, I love your dad, but I don't love Saka... shout out, [laughs] yeah, shout out my dad. [laughs] He always brings him up. 9:39 "Oh, the, the kid on Arsenal. The kid on Arsenal." Happy birthday, Mr. Roman. Um, he's all right. Look, he's nice. Oh, is that, yeah, what, 90? Is it 90 this year, Dix? He's, he's nice. 9:45 He's not what he said or, or, um, Lamar. He's not that, those guys at all. Yeah. But, uh, he's nice. Yeah, and that's, and that's fine. He doesn't need to be. 9:53 Look, man, as long as Arsenal can bounce back from what happened last weekend, that's all we gotta say. All right, let's go to Man City, man. [laughs] Yeah, that's, so, I mean, well, let's follow up. 10:02 Like, we'll finish up on, on the England game. Um- Yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah. Uh, I think the last thing about that game is it very, very much feels like Thomas Tuchel is at, at his Gareth Southgate era. Like, he, he has 10:18 firmly drawn the ire of nearly every England fan right now. Um, they are just about done with him, um, which is crazy, 'cause that man's stock could hardly have been higher when he got that job, and it is, 10:35 it is tumbling fast. So we'll see what happens with him, which is crazy, 'cause he took them to the semifinal [laughs] of the World Cup and they're like, "This guy." I, I, I... They're, they're number four in the world. 10:44 That's all I gotta say. That's a- Yeah, yeah... big deal. What do you, what do you, what do you, and you got- I expect that And there's great English talent coming up. I mean, like, Jude Bellingham is still young. 10:51 [laughs] Like, this, Elliot, like, these- Yeah... all these guys are young. You got a bunch of young guys. Like- Yeah... 10:57 I think that probably the biggest thing- You know, and I take, look, I'd take Tuchel back in Chelsea right now. Well, not right, like, right now right now, but, you know, I'll... 11:03 Yeah I think the biggest thing is I think England fans are worried that he's, his sort of, like, tough guy, like, hard-ass demeanor is going to cause problems with the more talented stars, like the Jude Bellinghams, like Cole Palmer. 11:14 Like Bellingham, yeah. Um, I, I think they're, they're sort of worried that he's, like, he's jumped the shark, so to speak. Like, he, [laughs] he's got this scraggly beard now. 11:23 He looks, he looks over it, and I think they're worried that he is over it. Um- So you're saying, you're saying like a, if, to bring it back to American sports, like a 11:32 Tom Thibodeau, great job with the Knicks, back-to-back Eastern Conference Finals, fired. They're like, "No, man, you can't get us over the hump. You're too, you're too strict. 11:41 You're too, you don't trust enough of the team. We're gonna bring in Mike Brown." And then you know what happened. Dex, you know what happened. I- The bench came to life. That's, that's the problem. OG tipping in. 11:52 That was the problem. La- yeah. Landen Shamet. Well, you know, I, I- Deuce McBride, like-... 11:55 text you when they fired Thibodeau and I, I was like, "The man took you to the finals two years in a row and you're firing him?" I know. I know. Don't, don't- Conference finals... do not hate on Leon Rose. 12:04 Leon Rose knows what's up. But, but yeah, but that's a good point. But you know what? Leon, Leon Rose know, knows what he's talking about, just to give that quick basketball thing. 12:10 I, I could see, I could see England maybe moving to a, like, hey, that's someone who trusts the entire squad a little bit. Like- Anyhow Yeah. [laughs] Ah. He's there. I, you know what? 12:20 They- I'd love to see Eddie Howe with a supremely talented team. [laughs] Give the, give Eddie Howe the reins for the Euros. Um, I think they- Just see how it goes? I think he's got, he's got everything they need. 12:35 He's got the Englishness that, like, they desire from a, uh, manager. Um- Which Tuchel does not. Yeah. Strangely. [laughs] German man- That is strange... not that English, huh? No. Um- Not really... but, 12:51 yeah, I think he get, I think he gets that team playing as good or better than the sum of their parts. That's sort of, like, that's Eddie Howe's whole thing. Um, which he's free right now. 13:02 You m- like, do you make the move? Do you fire Tuchel after this international break- I hope not... and go get Eddie Howe? I hope not. If- This is ridiculous, man. The man, fourth in the world. Fourth in the world. 13:14 That's a great accomplishment. All right. Well- Yeah... there's also, there's also another manager who's not doing anything right now, who's bald and has a track record of success. Oh, he's not going. 13:25 He's not getting Pep. [laughs] No? Why not? What, like, think about it. Pep, like, first of all, he, no offense Dexter, uh, turned Manchester blue. Hardcore. Like, just- Bro... 13:35 basically just stabbed the, stabbed the, the effigy of Sir Alex Ferguson over and over and over again. 13:42 He could ingratiate himself to all of England, get these, by the way, 114 charges that he's definitely partially involved in, mo- h- every England fan would wipe it away if he brought it home. 13:54 Would, do you think you'd ever hear them say, "Oh, well he only won because..." If you imagine he wins the World Cup for England, do they ever bring up the 114 charges ever again? Uh, not, not in relation to him, no. 14:06 Yeah. I, thought, I mean, I think he's- I mean, are they bringing up, but, but are they bringing it up in relation to him now? Oh, in relation. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. They, they say he was there when it was happening. 14:13 They're saying he knows. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. I mean- He was there. I think they're saying that he was there when it happened, so you know, how much- They're saying it-... culpability, who knows? Yeah. But... 14:22 They're saying it doesn't matter. You cheated. Your titles are null and void. Doesn't ma- like, it do- it doesn't matter that he's a great manager. Yeah, it doesn't matter. His tactics- You, you were cheating... 14:30 were amazing at all times, and they changed- Um... and he was, you know, a chameleon. Doesn't matter. You cheated. Whatever. Yeah. I mean, I, based on what he has said, 14:39 the day that, like, you know, he came out and said, "If I find out they're lying to, lying to me, I'm gone the next day." He- And then he s- Kinda left. 14:46 [laughs] He, he signed his extension, and then he didn't see through both years of extension. Um- Bad... 14:51 it kinda sounds like he found out that they lied to him and he's like, "Well, I won't leave the next day, but I will leave at the end of this year." Um, so. Yeah, I, I just, I don't know. 15:03 I don't, I don't foresee him coaching the England team. I could see him coaching the Spain team, for sure. Um- Yeah, yeah. That's all right. But- But it'd be fun if he did. 15:14 He was just like, "I'm gonna come in," and you know what? Like, what are the great challenges, what are, like, what are the great challenges in coaching? 15:22 Like, this is, uh, like akin to taking over, you know, being like the general manager of the Cubs or the Red Sox when, you know, when they hadn't won for, you know, a billion years. 15:32 Winning, bringing it, you know, bringing it home to England is one of the big coaching challenges. Like, that is, you know, you're, you'd be put up there forever. Like, so- I guess the question is does he care? 15:44 Like, I don't think this, I don't think it would ever happen. Like, I honestly don't think he'll ever go there. 15:48 But if he was a man who was like, "I wanna do the hardest possible thing," like, with the most kind of downside, where like, "Oh, you failed. 15:56 You, if you, you were, you weren't cheating, so now you can't, you know, do it," I think he would... I, I could see him taking it. I could see him taking it just as like a, "Ah, fuck it. I got drunk one night. 16:04 [laughs] I'll be, I'll be the, I'll be the coach of England." I could see, I think the only reason that he, he would take it is the, 16:13 the stick that you can beat Pep Guardiola with is he's never had to, he's never had a difficult situation. Barcelona, he had Messi, Busquets, Dani Al- like, he, he had the, one of the world's- Players. Yeah... 16:29 greatest teams. Then he goes to Bayern Munich. Okay. No- nobody beats Bayern Munich in Germany. They, they've won- Yeah... I don't know, 20 of the last, like, like 24, um, Bundesliga titles. 16:41 Like, it's, it's ridiculous out there. And yes, he, he... Well, he did win the Champions League with Bayern, right? I think he did. Uh, j- [laughs] don't ask me. I'll take that back. You're the man to ask about that. 16:51 Um, and then, and then he goes to Manchester City, who w- were already huge at that point. They've already, you know, eclipsed Man United. They've, they eclipsed Liverpool. They had eclipsed Chelsea. 17:00 They had eclipsed, uh, Arsenal, like, through the Mancini era. So, like, he didn't have to build a team. He didn't have any friction. He's never the... 17:14 Yeah, like, like, like, the, the criticism of Pep is, yeah, you always go to an easy job. So you've always had- Well, well-... an easy job... 17:21 you know, the, but the, the reason he goes to an easy job is because he's a good coach. You know what I'm saying? [laughs] Yeah, he's smart. He bought the best... Yeah, yeah. 17:28 It kinda, it kinda bo- it kinda bounces off each other. Right. You know? Right, yeah. S- you know, Swindon Town would love to have Pep Guardiola, but I don't think he's going there. [laughs] Yeah. Just because he... 17:39 Yeah. He's not gonna be like, "Fuck it, I'll go to Wrexham." Like... [laughs] Yeah. Now picture that. Now that'd be wild. That'd be awesome. Oh, that'd be awesome. That would be wild. That'd be... 17:47 I tell you what, Ryan- Ronnie Cohen, I know you listen. Make it happen... Nah, honestly, no, no. For- forget Pep. Jose Mourinho at Wrexham. A defense- That would be wild, too... a defense first out... 17:57 You could destroy the championship with a, with an amazing defense. Jose, go to Wrexham. Resurrect yourself. Let's go. Well, I was gonna say, like, if, if England did, like, end up moving on- Jose... 18:09 from Pep, or, or in the sense of, like... Or not moving on from Pep, moving on from Tuchel. 18:12 But you were saying, like, Pep would go there to win, like, to, to do the hardest job and to sort of cement his name in the, in the pantheon of the sport. The annals. I don't think that appeals to him. 18:23 But I could definitely see José Mourinho doing that. I could definitely see him being like, "Yeah, I absolutely had to go and bring football home because now I am the greatest manager of all time. 18:33 There's no if, ands, or buts about it." Oh yeah, he, he, he would be into that. And, and it's a, it's a team that sets up kind of a lot like a decent amount, a lot of his good Chelsea teams. 18:44 Like, you've got a great midfield, you've got a good attack. I know the defense isn't quite as sturdy as, you know, as he would like, but it's not, it's not bad. They got great defense. Ezri Konsa, uh, Marc Guéhi, 18:57 uh, Reece James if he's healthy. The, that's the biggest issue- Well, yeah, yeah... is who plays, who plays right back right now, because- Is that his offi- that's his official name, right? Reece James if he's healthy. 19:06 Yeah. Uh, Tuchell keeps playing- Yeah, Konsa I love... Tuchel keeps playing Trell Konsa out of position at right back because 19:14 I guess he remembers what Reece James was like at Chelsea and was like- That, yeah, he's like, "Yeah, if I look-... "This guy can't get through 90 minutes," so. 19:19 If I look at him too hard he's gonna, [laughs] he's gonna tear his hamstring. Like- You know, fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me, right? [laughs] Won't get fooled again. Come on. Yeah. 19:28 Do the, do the Bush quote. [laughs] That, that'd be fun. That, honestly, that, look, England, look, this is... I wouldn't say a, a, I'm not a golden generation. They're always good. 19:39 Like, they're, you know, England is, has been good for 15 years now. They've been, you know, kind of threatening. Um, but it seems like so- something's missing. Something's missing. 19:52 Yeah, and I think it- I don't know if it's coaching or tactics or, or what, but the, the team needs to be unlocked and I think, 19:58 I don't know if it's Jude being like, "Oh man, a lot, these games are all hard," rather than, you know, two games a year playing in the Bundesliga. You know, like, play hard every game, Jude. 20:10 Like, you are supre- like, you're the one of the most talented people I've ever seen in my entire life. I'm gonna need more out of you, you know? Yeah. He's doing fine at Real Madrid. He just, 20:20 he's not, he's really not a Galáctico, so he doesn't get sort of the pub- the publicity. He's not Vini Jr, you know. Um, but he's doing great, doing great at Real. Like, I'm not worried about him. He's an amazing player. 20:34 I don't know, I'm not worried about him. I'm just worried like, that he doesn't play enough of these, like, hard-fought, like hard, like, you can say what you want about the Prem, we're at the bottom of the Prem. 20:43 Like, yeah, they're not the most talented teams in the world, but at least they'll beat you up. Like, a lot of these, like, lower Prem teams, like, for especially for where Jude's playing, it's a difficult game. 20:53 Like, you're not, you, you know, it's not a fun game. You know, it's not fun to go to, when Stoke was up. It's not fun to go to Aston Villa. Like, it's not fun to go to Sunderland. 21:01 Like, these teams are, [laughs] you know, these teams are, like, full of guys who are gonna wallop you and like, just, you know, knock your legs out and take you out, where I feel like in Spain you get like, you know, you see guys just dribbling through the fields where you're like, "Defense? 21:14 Have you heard of it? Do we know the word in Spanish?" Like, "What is it?" Like, "What, what, what's going on?" That's fair. And I feel like he needs a little more, like, scruff of the neck. 21:23 Like, take the game by the scruff of the neck. Don't defer to these other guys on the field. Like, you're the guy. Like, at some point you're the guy. 21:30 Like, you know, Dex will understand this 'cause he watched him play live probably when he was 20. Uh, like, Michael Jordan would just take the game, he would just take it over, and there was nothing you could do. 21:40 You'd be like, "Well, we're gonna do everything we can against him." And he's like, "Well, guess what? I'm better than you, and I'm gonna figure out what I have to do to do it." 21:48 And I feel like there's too, there's almost too much, like, team-oriented, like, like, "No, play as a team. Play as a team. We're always a team." 21:56 It's like, great, but if I have a guy as good as Jude Bellingham, take the fucking ball, man. Like, get the ball. 22:02 Like, if I have a guy as good as Michael Jordan, we're not running, you know, we're not like, ooh, passing, passing, did you get it? Get him the damn ball. He's on a heater. He's hit 12 straight shots. 22:10 Like, get the guy the ball who's good. Hmm. Get the guy the ball who's good, and I think that England has too much, because there's so many good guys, there are a lot of good guys, "Well, I don't wanna..." 22:21 It's almost like, let's not step on toes. Let's not... I don't, I, I don't wanna, ooh, the, the... No. Jude, you're better than everyone else on that team talent-wise, size-wise, speed-wise. Take it over. 22:32 Just take the games over. I don't disagree with you. I think, I think you would like to see, if you're an England fan, Jude Bellingham impose himself on more games. 'Cause when he does it, England win. 22:47 It's as simple as that. You know, he is... He's got attributes that most players can only dream of. He's got the size, he's got the physicality, he's got the, the strength and the technical ability. 23:01 And he can leather a ball. Like, he's, as we used to say in, uh, NHL, uh, PA, uh, 94 on the Sega Genesis, he's in god mode. God mode. He's in god mode. He can do everything. He can do everything. 23:15 He's got the h- he's got the hammer and, what was it? The, the- And the sla- the stick... and the stick. Which means you have the power slap shot and you are a power hitter. 23:22 So you would just lay guys out, and then just knock the goalie down with a slap shot. It was great. That game was great. [laughs] So good. He's like Holland, basically. 23:29 He's like, he's Holland who could, like, Vert almost, like, he's a little shorter obviously and plays a slight different position, but like, talent-wise and, like, ability-wise, like, why are you not just, 23:39 why are you just beating the crap out of these guys? [laughs] Like, you should just be demolishing people. Hmm. Anyway. All right. Let's move on- Amer-... from, from, uh, from England. 23:50 Um- Do we have to talk about America? We won apparently. I didn't watch... No highlights. I didn't watch a single second of it, so. Yeah, this, this is gonna be three minutes. This is gonna be two minutes really quick. 23:58 It's the only other game I watched this weekend. Yeah. USA beat Peru. Um, it was basically just a runout for the teenagers, but it was good though. Yeah. Yeah. It was a bunch of kids. 24:08 Uh, Cavin Sullivan, 16-year-old, youngest player since Freddy Adu, um, to play for- Oh, he's a very, he's a Max Dowman type, huh? Yeah. Played for the US national team. 24:17 Um, he plays every, plays every week for, for Philly right now. He's, um, good player, hard nose, like, got attitude. 24:25 Um, you know, he got into it with Messi a couple weeks ago because he's just like, "Fuck this guy Messi. He's nothing to me." Good. That's your grandfather. Punch him in the face. [laughs] I'll break your hip, old man. 24:34 Yeah, seriously. Go, go retire. You're 1,000. Old Man River, zip it or I'll break your hip. [laughs]Nice. Um- Big daddy reference. Hell yeah. But, uh, yeah, but Ca- uh, Cavan Sullivan played all right. 24:47 Um, this guy, what does that... I think John Ellis, um, scored a couple minutes in, beautiful header off, uh, Gio Reyna's, uh, free kick. Gio Reyna played a great game, had a couple assists. 24:59 Uh, Julian Hall, teenager for, um, the Red Bulls came on. He scored an absolute banger, uh, of a goal. And then, Seb Ber- Seb Berhalter from 25 yards just leathered one top bins. 25:15 Um, it was a good, it was a good game for the US. And that was Julian Hall giving it back to him, actually. Yeah. 25:21 Although, you wouldn't know it was Julian Hall, because he wears his mother's name on his back of his shirt. [laughs] Um, so it's like Zachar- Zacharenski. 25:28 And like, they keep saying Hall, and I'm like, "Why are you talking about Julian Hall when, when you're looking at Zalenski?" [laughs] Um, which apparently- Shout out to Maurice Poc- Pochettino, man- He's-... 25:38 for doing that. He's gotta be done. You know? I mean, look. You know, I mean- He's gotta get, 25:41 he's gotta get Julian Hall in a official game though, because he apparently has not yet decided if he's gonna play for the USA or Poland. Oh. I think it's Poland. Oh, Jesus Christ. I think it's his mother's fault. 25:51 Get, get, get him away from Poland. Goddammit. Yeah. [laughs] But I appreciate it. I, I- I appreciate he put those kids out... I love Poland, but yeah. Yeah. Put those kids out with the... 25:58 W- look, Peru's number 50 in the country, in, in the world. Ain't no big deal. Yeah. But I'm glad he let them get some run. They needed that run, you know? Yeah, they... And you know what? I think they needed that, 26:09 they needed that type of game. They needed Peru, who's a tough team, they're defensive, they're gonna put challenges in. Mm. They're gonna leave a boot on you. Um, and Peru equalized, you know, 15 minutes in. 26:19 Yeah, that was a great goal too. It was 1-1. It could've easily- That was a really good goal. Yeah. Not shocking, a team scored against the US. [laughs] That is- Yeah, that was a really good goal. 26:27 Austin, Austin Trusty tries to dribble out of his own, out of his own box and just gives the ball away, and- Oh, brilliant... um, and then, uh, this young kid playing left back just doesn't tuck in on, on the striker. 26:40 You know, beautiful cross to the back post, but he doesn't tuck in in time. You know, nice header, 1-1. But like, you would think a team of teenagers easily could have crumbled at that point, but 26:53 they regrouped, they doubled down. They ended with, I think, only Austin Trusty finished the game as one of the starters. And there's only six... 27:01 He was one of six players who, um, played at the World Cup, even on, on the starting 11. Yeah. So, like, it was a, it was a young team. Good. And they, and, and they ended up- Didn't know that. I like that... 27:12 they ended up 4-1, so, um, yeah. Yeah. And mad... Look, mad respect to Pochettino. I like Pochettino, that's what I'm trying to say. Yeah. Yeah. You know what I mean? He's doing a good job. 27:20 I don't like him at Chelsea, but I like him at the US Men's National Team. [laughs] Yeah, yeah. Look, I, I like him. We needed, we needed, we needed somebody, we need a South American to come in and shake it up here. 27:28 Yeah. Give a different attitude. I, I, like him outside of, uh, the team just pulling a no-show against Belgium, where they just pretended like the game was the next day, but other than that, no, I, I- Uh, you know what? 27:37 That, that, yeah... where I think, like, England should every- That was their only problem... yeah, where I think, like, England should maybe make a change, I think the US is the exact opposite. Stay, stay with this guy. 27:45 He's got good tactics. He's got... Like, you know, stay with him. Just stick with someone for... Like, give him a run through the next Gold Cup or the next World Cup. Like, let's, let's, let's give it a run. Yeah, yeah. 27:57 Let's- Yeah, I could see them going far with him. Like, the next Gold Cup, I could see them just battering away at teams. 28:03 I, I, I think he has the, the ability to, to get a team to do that, at least to get the US to do that. Yeah. Yeah. 28:10 Yeah, and, and you gotta realize, like, the, the talent coming through the program is, is really good right now. Um, so we, we could do some stuff. I think the Gold Cup should easily be within our sights. 28:24 Uh, I don't think- Yeah, I mean, it always is. Like, it's, uh, it's us and Mexico every year, with Jamaica occasionally throwing down a- I don't think Mexico has... Well, Canada's good- Yeah... these days. Yeah. 28:33 Canada's b- Canada's been the dominant team in, in the, in the region for the last cycle, so. Yeah, we'll, we'll just tariff them. They won't be allowed to come. That's fine. Except for- What's going on, Trinidad? 28:42 Trinidad, come on now. Get back, get back. [laughs] Get back in action, Trinidad. What are you doing? Shout out to the Trinidadians. 28:49 [laughs] But I guess, uh, for Canada, I guess, it's easy to win when you're constantly spying on people and cheating, so. Oh. But- Oh... speaking of cheating, we gotta talk about- Yes, good- The-... double segue. 29:02 We, we, [laughs] we were half in, now we're fully in. We, we, we gotta talk about the biggest story of the week. 29:08 Um, it's not official yet, obviously, because the, you know, the Premier League is not doing anything out in the open. But the word has come through that City have, will be found guilty on almost all charges. Uh, 29:26 sorry, [laughs] I just got- [laughs]... I just got punched in the back by a 60 pound dog. [laughs] I'll bet, I'll bet the one that they were, they weren't guilty of was the most important. No. Well, so here's the thing. 29:37 That's... We're gonna have to pause for the, [laughs] pause the recording, 'cause she's literally eating my hand. Lily, pause. [laughs] That's a great joke. I'm just gonna- Keep it in, Kevin. Keep that joke in. 29:50 [laughs] Uh, leave, leave my joke in that said we have to paws. [laughs] I hate you. Um, so- [laughs] Leave that part in too. 30:03 So, uh, that's the thing right now, is, uh, a lot of people are saying the one charge that they're not guilty of is, like, the, one of the biggest charges, so their punishment will be, will be lighter. 30:16 The thing is, they weren't charged any of the charges. There was no... There was not one instance of any charge. So, you can't say, "Oh, the one charge they got away with was the most important one." 30:28 They were charged with everything multiple times. If one of those counts failed, it just means one time 30:36 the prosecution failed to prove their case on that one of, like, 36 instances of failing to accurately disclose your financials. Like- That doesn't mean you've not done it, that just means you only did it 35 times. 30:51 [laughs] Like, um- Yeah. Innocent once, innocent forever. That's all, [laughs] that's all I'm hearing. Um, so yeah. So seems like a hu- like everyone's saying 114 to the 115 charges will be, um, 31:08 will, will have a guilty verdict, obviously. Immediate appeal, um, which is I suspect why we actually haven't heard, like, any sanctions. I think that's basically what they did with the Chelsea situation is 31:21 they didn't, they didn't, um, they didn't announce their verdict prior to any appeals or any, like, finalization of, uh, of the work with Chelsea. And Chelsea did- Well, they were- You know. 31:36 Well, they did ultimately appeal. They originally were going to get a, um, [smacks lips] suspended points deduction, and Chelsea appealed that saying like, "That's not fair, man. We came to you." 31:46 [laughs] Um, and they said, "Okay. Okay, you're right. So we'll sus..." They ended up suspending, um... What'd they suspend? Or maybe they did suspend the... 31:54 Anyway, whatever they did, Chelsea appealed the initial ruling. They, they walked it back, kind of lowered it. Um, and then- It was like tra-... once that happened-... it was like transfer bans, right? 32:03 Was it, like, transfer bans we ended up with? We have a suspended transfer ban. We have an active youth transfer ban right now. Banned? Transfer ban, um, for- Oof, youth, uh, youth transfer bans. I don't like that. 32:15 [laughs] I don't wanna hear youth transfer. That's, I mean, that is Chelsea's model, too. They're like, "Hit them where- Ugh... it hurts, boys." Yeah. Goddamn. Can we, can we rename that? 32:21 [laughs] I don't like the sound of that. Youth. Ugh. Just, just be, like, non-adult or something. Like, I don't know, like pre-adults. That, I think that's worse. [laughs] That's worse. I don't know, youth... 32:31 I don't know. Youth just hits me, like, ugh. Like, I want it to be like n- m- non-sexual youth talking stuff. [laughs] Like, I don't know. It's creepy. I don't like it. All right. Anyway. Moving on. 32:41 [laughs] We'll cut that part out. What you s- what do you think should happen to City? Now, what, do we want... What do we think should happen? What do, what do, what do we think should happen? Or what do we want? 32:51 And then what do we think will happen? Uh, what do I think should happen? They should face a points deduction. Um- Next year... probably something... 33:03 No, they should face it as soon as it's, um, oh, 'cause you don't want Arsenal to win. [laughs] That's understandable. No, I'm just saying. Um, uh- Let me put that out there right now. 33:11 I'm, I'm- Let me just say this right now. Let me say this right now I'm, I'm- United should have three titles. [laughs] No. Liverpool... Shout out to my man- No... Connor Loman. Happy birthday, Connor. 33:21 Liverpool should have three titles, and Arsenal should have two. I'll just put it out there right now. Well, well, first of all, Arsenal gets zero, because- Zero... 33:27 the, because the cheating period- They were never second to anybody... only went to 2018. We're talking about a period fro- up to 2018. So- Oh... ze- zero, zero for Arsenal. And I, I- Sorry... 33:39 I will not abide this like, "Well, just because they stopped cheating in 2018 doesn't mean, like, that tea..." Like, no. No. We're not vacating all their titles. 33:50 Y- only during the period, um, that they're being, you know, convicted of. But d- let me ask you this, Dexter. Uh-huh. Do you really want those titles? Do you really want- No, I, I, no, I don't. 34:03 [laughs] I just want people to know that we really won that, that year. [laughs] That's it. And see, but the thing is, you do, because the- Aguero, all that bull. Aguero. [laughs] Aguero. 34:12 All that- But the thing is, football is still pa- played on the field. No, no, I know. And- But I just, I don't- Yeah... w- if United did that, people would wanna dismantle the club. If Chelsea did that, oh my gosh. 34:24 They don't even like the whole oligarchy thing. We j- hold on. [laughs] We just went through it. Chelsea got punished. Th- Chelsea, well- We just went through it. Yeah. Th- if we did that, oh my goodness. See? 34:35 They think they're special. But anyway. That's not gonna happen. No, you guys were smart. You didn't do financial, you know, fair play. You just paid the refs, and I give you any red cards- [laughs] Yeah... 34:42 during the Sir Alex Ferguson years. Ugh. All right. [laughs] All right. So what, uh, go ahead. I, uh, I'll give you the uninformed American's, uh, take. What do I think will happen? 34:54 I think they'll get some transfer bans. You know, there'll be like, uh... So probably January and summer, maybe they'll ban them for two. Some youth stuff, like Kevin w- likes to talk about. Yep. Mm-hmm. 35:08 Um, and then look, if we wanna make the joke, I've, I've already said enough, 10 point deduction to Everton. But they'll, there'll be no point deduction this season. They might get one next year. Nah. 35:17 I could see them- Yeah... only because this season it's already seen that it's a two-team race, and if you deduct 10 points from City, you're saying Arsenal gets the title. And 35:30 I think they, you know, as much as, as much as they wanna be like, "We're fair and everything," you know what you want, though? You want people watching games. When do they watch games? When they matter. 35:40 When do games not matter? When Arsenal's up 17 points in the, you know, the, the title race because of a point deduction. 35:49 So they'll get some transfer bans, they'll get some, I'm sure, monetary bans, like you can't spend on this, that, the other thing. 35:56 A lot of shit that none of us will ever notice except for Kevin, who, like, looks at this crap. Yeah. And then- Yeah, I agree. That's exactly what's gonna happen. Yeah. Yeah, I agree. 36:04 Kevin's gonna look at all that stuff. [laughs] Oh. [laughs] You could, you could be sure. Um, I think that's probably fair. 36:10 The only thing I disagree, I don't think you can, like, suspend or impli- like, apply a transfer ban, like, in the coming season. If, like, once the verdict's out, once the ruling is out, we are going to- Oh, yeah. 36:25 I, I mean-... lose 60 points. It goes in then... I mean, it's, I meant like, I meant like two bans from when, like, the appeal, the appeal is done. So- Sorry, not transfer ban... obvious. I meant, uh, points deduction. 36:32 Like, I don't think, you can't say like- Oh, the, the-... "Well, next year you have a 60-point deduction." 36:37 I think if, if the point deduction is going to come into place, it must be applied immediately once, you know, all appeals are, are, um, exhausted. What, now my, my- What do I think-... 36:47 my thought is City, I'd say my thought is City has good enough lawyers that they can kick this can down the road to- 36:55 After the season is concluded, when the, the official, the official ruling comes in, you're not gonna then deduct points. Like, if they decide they want a point deduction, which there's... 37:06 I'll put it out there right now. You can clip this, put it on Instagram, it'll be fun. We'll get a lot of [laughs] views when I'm wrong. 0.0% chance they get a point deduction. 0.0. They will not fuck up this... 37:18 You could take points from Everton, 'cause they're not gonna win. You could take points from all the middle teams, 'cause they're not gonna win. You can't fuck up the title race by... 'Cause guess what happens? 37:30 When Arsenal wins by nine, and you took 10 away from City, City's gonna go, "We won the fucking title. We won it on the field." You took points away from shit that happened eight years ago. 37:41 Hey, let me tell you something. These, these players are going, "Oh yeah, all that's happened? We don't care. We gonna beat everybody. Now we gonna beat everybody." Yeah. Yeah, you think nothing matters. 37:50 That's what they're saying right now. Yeah. They say, "Okay, that, that's what you're gonna do? We gonna beat everybody this season. Just screw up everything." Dude, some- You know?... 37:57 of those players on City were 15 at the end of this, like, charge. Like, where the charges go, the... It, like, they were 12 to 15 when this shit was going on. Why are we punishing, like, like, I... 38:09 They're just not gonna do it. They're not, they're just not gonna do it. Like, the malfeasance, I'm, I imagine, like, like, ooh, it's 100... The number is what gets everyone. It's 115 charges. Yeah. Well, you know what? 38:19 I bet it's 115 of, like, not the most, like, intense charges. Like, they, some of the shit that they're, the little... You know, again, it sucks to be a smaller club, 'cause guess what? You don't have as good lawyers. 38:31 You don't have as much money to get around. Like, you can't figure out the system. Yeah, you're Everton, you get fucked for 10 points. [laughs] Sorry. You know? You're Derby County, you get fucked. 38:40 'Cause you don't have people who know how to manipulate the system. You don't have the revenue streams to move money left and right, left and right, to make it seem good. 38:49 And the Saudis have already said, "Hey, by the way," um, I saw this today, "if you, uh, if you come down hard on Man City, you're gonna mess up some of our trade relations." 39:04 Like, the Saudis are basically being like, "Hey, you like your oil? You're not gonna get any if you, [laughs] if you fuck up Man City." So- [laughs]... 39:12 all of that combined, look, they're gonna, they're gonna get some transfer bans, they're gonna get some, like, monetary penalties, which is stupid. 39:19 Because I love, I love when they fi- like, they fine a corporation, "You've been fined $4 million for this thing that you did that made you $7 billion." [laughs] Like, yeah, I'll pay that fine, thanks, good job, hey. 39:30 But- I just had a, I had a weird flashback... they're too big to fail. This is, this is too big to fail. This is literally a too big to fail scenario. Yeah. Well- And 39:39 the Premier League wants a title race, so City is, will not lose points this year. Absolutely. I just had- That's fair... a weird flashback to, um, to, 20 years ago, about, like, right after the World Cup. 39:52 You know, Juventus went down to Serie B for, Serie B because of, uh, like, referee stuff or whatever. Yeah. Went down there, killed- Well, that was, that was match fixing. I know, but- That was match fixing... 40:02 went, went down to Serie B, killed everybody, came right back up. It's like- They went, they went down to- These guys-... C. They went down three tiers. It was a C? I'm not even sure, but, um- It was a third tier... 40:11 they sure killed it. They went down, they went down to the third tier. Um, but let me, let me tell you what I think is gonna happen. 40:17 Um- Yeah, so the, the, the man who actually reads things, whereas Dex and I are just vibes only. [laughs] I don't, I mean, there's so many different things. 40:24 You got Noel Gallagher, who's ba- you know, because obviously the guy from Oasis knows everything. Um, saying- I was about to say, you mean the guy from Oasis? [laughs] It is the- Yeah... guy from Oasis, okay. Yeah. 40:34 He's saying he's heard it from a high up at the club that he can't name that they're gonna basically get a slap on the wrist, which I could see. Mm-hmm. Um, I could, I could absolutely see them- Yeah... 40:44 getting just- Well, you know what's funny? Look, I like, I love Oasis. Why are you talking, man? Just, just- 'Cause, 'cause they're huge in the city... he's in Oasis. They talk. [laughs] That's what famous people do. 40:53 Oh, yeah, that's what they do. For sure, why not talk? They can't stop talking. [laughs] Fa- famously can't stop talking. Yeah. Yeah. Famously guys who hate each other- Or arguing... 41:01 and can't shut their fucking mouths up. [laughs] Anyway. Whatever, man. No, it's Thursday. It's Thursday. All right, all right. 41:08 Um, could very much be a, you know, as much as a fine, suspended, points deduction, transfer ban. I think for me the most likely out, uh, outcome is a massive fine that doesn't matter because they have unlimited money. 41:23 A trillion dollars. A, a transfer ban of three or possibly four, um, windows. So, like- Which that does matter. That, that does affect you, yeah. Yeah. Um, for, for all players. Um, 41:42 and I think they will face a points deduction. I think it will be something like 12 points, maybe 15 points. Um- Zero chance. 0.0% chance. I think they have to, honestly. I think the- No, they don't. 41:56 They, they- The Pr- no, the-... they do shit. [laughs] I think, the Premier League, I think, has to at this point. They have to show after three years something comes of this. Um, they will... 42:09 A lot of the reporting is that they will face a points deduction that will guarantee relegation. Um, I have a hard time believing that. I just, I don't see it happening. They are the biggest cash cow 42:24 in the league right now. They are box office draw every week no matter what. You've got Erling Haaland, who has never been more popular, and if they go down, he's not going to Man U, he's not going to Arsenal. 42:38 He's going to Real Madrid, or he's maybe going- Although, although-... to Bayern Munich. Like, he's not- He's going to Spain or Germany. He's going to Spain or Germany. Yeah, he probably would go away. Yeah. 42:44 But, but even if he went away, man, if they went down, that'd be sweet. They'd go out there, just make the championship really popular all of a sudden. You know what I mean? 42:51 [laughs] They, they- Go and be the Invincibles of, of their- Nobody would watch it. Honestly, nobody would care. No, it would. ESPN, I can't even find it. 42:59 It was- I know I wouldn't watch it, but it'd be good for the championship fans When Juventus went down- Now where is it? It's on Paramount? Like, where is it? 43:04 No, the Premier League makes their money off- When Juventus went down for match fixing, when Celtic, uh, not Celtic, when Rangers went down for their, uh, going into administration, nobody... 43:13 I mean, nobody watches Scottish Premier League anyway. Mm. But, like, nobody cared. Like, it, if Man City go down, they will immediately leave the consciousness of these, like, the modern fan. 43:27 Like, even the modern, like, Man City fans who are like, "Well, I'm a fan because I like Pep Guardiola." Shout out Mike Castro. Um- Mm-hmm... they, they're not, they're not watching the Sky Bet Championship. 43:36 They're not watching the, like, 43,000 games that they have to play [laughs] a year in that league. [laughs] Like, it's just not happening. The, it's- It'd be sweet though... 43:46 and they become- I'm saying what it is, it'd be sweet. Just say that. Yeah. It'd be sweet. All right? I think it'll be interesting, if they do go down, what I'm more interested in is, like, does, does the team get sold? 43:58 Like, does that no longer- Do they just back out, yeah, do the Saudis just serve- Well, that, 'cause that no longer serves their sport- Yoi... 44:04 that no longer ser- serves their sport- sports washing needs, which is honestly what they bought the team for. They didn't buy it to- Well, they got, they get, and they got rid of LIV... to win the team. 44:12 LIV, LIV Golf is gone already. You know? 44:15 Like, I think if they go down, I easily see them selling the team for 2 billion or, or even a 1.5 billion, like, sell it at a major loss, and just moving on because the, we've already established the money doesn't matter, um- And just buy Spurs [laughs]... 44:32 to them. They'll buy Spurs or they'll, they'll buy a team in Germany, um, or wherever, you know, in France, they'll, they'll, they'll buy Marseille or OG, you know, OGC Nice. 44:43 Like, they'll, they'll buy some- someone else and sports wash somewhere else, and throw cash in where the government is more accepting of looking the other way to, you know, to that money. Um, 44:59 and, and they will do it that way. I think if they go down, if they go down, it could very likely be the end of Manchester City. 45:07 I th- I could easily see them becoming Blackburn, and just being a team that toils in the lower, in the second, third, back up to the second, like, divisions because, like, there's just, nobody cares anymore. 45:23 Like- I, I, I would say right now that I think the ownership group, you know, the Saudis, whoever they are, YOI, who own them, they, they have enough power to push this final determination. 45:39 If it's not, you know, to the end of the season, it's gonna be to the second half of the season, where an all of a sudden point deduction becomes that much more unpalatable. 45:49 Like, if you've got a great race of City and Arsenal going at each other, and then all of a sudden you're gonna go, "We're taking 10 off City," 45:59 like, you've just, you know, y- y- the Prem is not gonna ruin their whole season. They're not gonna ruin their whole season. And- You'd love to hope that that wouldn't matter. At least I would... nah, no. No. I would. 46:08 Honestly, I wouldn't hope to, because you know what? Money runs this whole thing, and do I really care that Man City, like, spent a little bit of money extra here? 46:15 Or I, I, yeah, I don't care about any teams cheating money-wise. Like, I literally don't care. Like, I wanna see good games, and they haven't won every title. 46:23 Liverpool won a title, Arsenal won a title with like, you know, with these teams doing their thing. No offense, U- you know, United. 46:29 You guys couldn't get over the hump 'cause I assume it was all cheating or the fact that you don't have Sir Alex Ferguson anymore and your team is, you know, making a guy grow his hair down to his knees, unfortunately. 46:40 Uh, but like- Yeah... I, I, this is a thing where, like, I don't care. Like, I don't [laughs] like, I literally- Well, well, I d- I agree with you, Sean... like, give, you know what? Go ahead. No, no, no. 46:50 I, yeah, I was saying like, just give them, give them bans on future, like, a b- future ability to improve their team. Like, give them eight, give them an eight transfer window ban where they can't bring in anyone. 47:02 Cut their money on international spending. Like, cut money that they wanna spend on other things. Don't change the games that were played on the field. 47:10 Don't be like, "Well, Arsenal won by two points because we gave a 10 point deduction to City." Like, no one wants to see that. No one wants to hear that, 'cause then we gotta argue with Arsenal fans, "Well, we won." 47:21 And we have to tell them like, "Yeah, you won because of the fact that they got busted for shit 10 years ago." And they're like, "Well, we still won." Yeah. And like, I don't wanna hear that. 47:28 I want, if they win, I want there to be like, "Well played, Arsenal. Well played, Swift. Good job. Iowa kicked ass this weekend." 47:34 Like, I want it to be like that, where he's happy that they won and not, we won because of administration details or, like, weird ass rules. Sure. So this brings up, you slightly touched on it. 47:45 This brings up the, I think the, the other side of the argument that I have is, like, they cheated. Quote unquote, "cheated," right? S- in what capacity though? They cheated by spending money that they have, 48:02 but that was outside of the weird rules that were created to say, "Well, you can't spend that mon- even though you're mega rich, 48:11 you can't spend as much money as, as you want because that's not fair to that other guy who's only a billionaire when you're a quadrillionaire." Like, 48:22 yeah, they cheated, but they cheated against rules that were established to prevent them from succeeding. Like- Well, I mean, you can, you can go ask Steve Ballmer and the Clippers. They just lost five first round picks. 48:37 They didn't lose any points in the regular season. They didn't say, "We're gonna deduct, you know, games that you won." They, they still have the picks they traded for. Like, that's a similar situation. 48:47 They circumvented the, the salary cap in, quite literally, the stupidest possible way, and as Idris Elba would say in, uh, The Wire, "Is you taking notes on a goddamn criminal conspiracy?" 48:59 [laughs] Like, what the fuck are you doing? Why are you writing emails, you idiots? But yeah, they cheated, but the product on the field is still the product on the field. 49:07 And you're telling me that these- That's what it gets you, sure. That's what it gets you. These other... Yeah. Go on, man. Like, these other teams, these other teams spent a lot of money too. 49:13 It's not like they spent- It's exactly-... $400 billion more and got every single player. This isn't the Yankees from the 1920s. Like- Yeah, look, the-... other teams got players they wanted. 49:23 Like, w- it- Look, they did some financial things that they gotta face, that's it. But ultimately, yeah, beat them on the pitch. 49:29 D- everybody grown men, everybody got tr- the top six, seven teams are spending money, right? Yeah. Yeah. You gotta beat 'em on the pitch. But they did. Eventually. You can't- Okay... 49:40 you know, I mean, yeah, you p- you, you, you're able to buy superstars, but hey- But that's the counter... they, they put on their pants like everybody else. 49:46 But that's the counter, is if you spent to the rules, you wouldn't have those superstars, and we probably could have beaten you. I, honestly, I think they did. They broke the rules and I didn't. So that's unfair. And I, 50:00 I don't know where I, I fa- I, I fall on the s- I, I think I fall on the line of, like, well, the law is the law, even if it's an un- like, an unfair law. It's not unjust. It's, you know, it's not that level. 50:12 But it's like, yes, it was very clearly put in place so that what Chelsea did could never be done again, basically. Um, because the established elite said, "Fuck that. We're not allowing that. 50:24 We're not allowing Villa's new mega-rich owner to come in, splash as much money as he wants, and make this a 10-horse race. Like, we're just, we're, we're not going to allow it." 50:35 Uh, and I don't necessarily agree with that. I don't think that's necessarily fair or acceptable. Um, but it is what it is. It is the law, and they did not abide by it. [laughs] So there's, 50:48 you know, like, you kinda have to look at it in, in those two lights, is were the laws just or fair or correctly applied? I mean, they were correctly applied, but were they correctly created? 51:01 No, I, I don't necessarily think that. I think they were created because of, you know, a group of people with power got scared of not having power. Um, but that doesn't give Manchester City the right to circumvent them. 51:14 And I think you've shown m- like, slightly mentioned about, like, some of the more important, like, or higher crimes. A- m- most of these 114 charges are, like, inflated sponsorship deals. Like, 51:33 so, you know, uh, Eti- you know, the Etihad, uh, basically said, like, "We'll pay you $16 billion to be your official airline partner." It's like, okay, I mean, that's a, that's a, 51:50 that, that, it's a legal deal, but it was way overvalued because no one was getting that much money for an airline partner across the league. 52:00 Uh, and it just so happens that the owners of Manchester City also own Emirates Airline. [laughs] So it's like- Yeah, so Etihad... Etihad Airline. It's like, it's like, so- Double dealing, yeah. It's, it's- So-... 52:11 it's handing money. It's, by the way, in America, perfectly fine. Tesla is allowed to sell cars to SpaceX. And he's like, "Hey, SpaceX just ordered an ass load of Teslas with government money." 52:23 And the Tesla stock goes up, yeah. And like, and that's- Yeah, every- everyone's cool with that... that should be stock manipulation. Like, everyone's perfectly cool with this. You know what? 52:28 Hearing that, now I'm thinking, fuck that, give them 52:31 a three, a three-window transfer ban, uh, money, like, weird money you can't spend on, like, you know, you know, nonsense in the side where, like, they actually control it. Other than that, you can't take points away. 52:44 Uh, you cannot take points away with what I'm hearing. This is nonsense. Yeah. I mean, and like, the other thi- like, the, the, the serious ones are basically 52:57 f- um, failing to disclose what they were actually paying people. So that, like, those are, like, the main... Like, that's the actual, like, legit cheating. Like, they said they were paying Roberto Mancini f- 53:09 £3 million a season, but they were really paying him seven. Wait, is that the coach? Because- The, the coach pay matters? Yeah. Yeah, 'cause he- Oh, that's bullshit... huge. 53:18 Even American sports are like, "Fuck that, pay the coach whatever you want." That doesn't part, that's not part of the salary cap. It doesn't matter. For PSR and, uh, FFP- F-... it's the total spend. 53:26 So- Uh, it's, it's-... it all, it's all-encompassing... dead that. You know what? I, the, the, more and more I'm hearing, like, the, you, like, the stuff that you know makes me go, this is nonsense. 53:35 Like, they, they, look, they were cheating on the margins. This is, this is Deflategate. This is like, this is, you know, like, ooh, we're gonna record a practice. 53:43 Like, this is, like, shit that didn't actually affect the game all that much. And anyone being like a 70-point deduction, like, you're out of your minds. They're getting, they're getting a three-transfer window ban. 53:55 They're getting monetary penalties. They're getting, like, you can't spend on youth academy stuff. Like, th- they, that's what they're getting. The, there's- Right... 54:02 zero chance they are ruining this season's title race with a point deduction. Like, 0.0. And come at me if it happens, but it's not happening. Well, that's what, that's what I kept saying, is that, 54:14 um, for the longest time I said the, like, whenever everyone was like, "Oh, well, the 115, what's happening? What's happening?" 54:19 It's like, the Chelsea charges will be done with first, because they will set a precedent of what the punish- Yeah, what the punishment is... expected punishment is for- I remember you saying that... 54:27 for- You said that a lot... for hiding payments. So essentially one of Chelsea's things is they paid Eden Hazard's agent a shit ton of money off the books through another intermediary. And it went to Eden Hazard. 54:40 [laughs] So that Eden... Right. Yeah. So that, well, no. No. Okay. It went to his agent, and his agent said, "You're signing with Chelsea," and he said, "Okay." 54:47 [laughs] They're all gonna- Yeah, it, it, it- Every- It went... And this is Kawhi being like, [laughs] un- his uncle going in there and being like, "Yo, let me get a stake in the team." 54:55 [laughs] Like, it, it's all the same shit. It's crazy stuff. It doesn't matter who it went to. Ultimately, everyone was going to give Eden the same deal. He was going to make the same money at every team who wanted him 55:06 And if you think, if you think that, if you think the agent pocketed that and told him he had to go there, you are insanely naive. What happened is they said, "Eden, we're gonna give your agent a huge-ass payment. 55:19 It's gonna go to you, and you're gonna come here." Well, no, they wouldn't have hid it. If the agent, and the agent took- But then they wouldn't have hidden it. They would've just said, "It's an agent payment." 55:25 No, they would still would have, 'cause it would be like, "Why are you paying the agent so much? Why are you paying that agent so much?" The agent's like, "Look, they're gonna pay this amount extra. 55:32 I'm gonna take 10% for doing the deal, and you're gonna go to Chelsea." And he went, "Yeah, cool. Great." Right. E- exactly. Like, that's the point. Yeah. Like, that, that is- Still legal. Yeah, still legal... 55:42 ultimately the point that I'm making, is, is the argument is, without those, with- without those subterfuge and those back channel deals, 55:53 many of the players who made this team great don't go there, because they go to United, they go to Arsenal, they go to Madrid, they go to Bayern Munich. Because if it's, you know, if it's between Manchester City, who 56:09 are, are decent, you know, like they're, they're, they're paying good salaries, or Bayern Munich, who's in the Champions League every year and, and are probably gonna, you know, have a good shot of winning it every year, like I'll take 80, you know, I'll take 80,000 less a week 56:23 to go to win. 'Cause when you're making 280,000, what's another 80,000? Doesn't matter. Um- Yeah... so they had to overpay for those things. 56:31 And they, and then when, when they were restricted on what they could spend, they hid those payments. And that's what, you know, ultimately that's the, the crux of the argument, is they, they hid these 56:45 agent payments, they hid these ancillary payments to, like, a lot of their staff to basically be more open with the payments that they were doing to the players. 56:56 So, like, people like even Mikel Arteta, apparently, um, a lot of the staff got paid from two sources, because they were hiding how much they were paying. So, like, you had, like... 57:09 So, like I say, R- Roberto Mancini, he got paid from Manchester City Football Group, and he got paid from some, like, Abu Dhabi, uh, like consult- as a consultant. 57:22 So he, like, he went to, to Riyadh or somewhere once, did a, um, did a conference, and was like, "Cool," that was like 6 million pounds, [laughs] like for a year. [laughs] It's like, we, we all know that's fake. 57:35 And like that's, um, that's essentially what Der Spiegel found. They found someone sent an email like, "We probably shouldn't be doing [laughs] this." Um, and that's where all of this comes from. 57:46 But I, I think for me, ultimately, I do think they will face a, uh, a, a points deduction, because I think the Premier League feels they have to. Like, it's gone on for so long. [laughs] It's become such 58:02 a monster on its own that something needs to be done. I don't think it's... 58:08 People are talking about like, "It should be 456, you know, points, because if you take the average of what Forest got and what Leicester got and what Everton got, that's four points per charge, and it's 100..." Like- 58:21 No. [laughs]... that's not happening. They're not- Also- They're, they're not being relegated out of existence. They, they're, I don't even think they're going to get relegated. I think they will 58:30 face between six and 10 points deduction, and then we'll just all move on. I, I think, I think it matters when the appeals are actually done. 58:40 Because if these appeals are done in April, which, you know, lawyers love to, [laughs] you know, billable hours, baby. We can kick these down the c- you know, kick this down the road. 58:49 There is zero, zero chance they are deducting points from a title race that is two teams with, like, eight weeks to go or nine weeks to go. That fucks every one of your games. 59:02 That kills, that just, I mean, it kills your market. It kills everybody watching. Not happening. They're... 59:08 Look, they're gonna be like, "We hit them with a f-" Like, they'll, they'll pick some nonsensely, like, large fine. "We hit them with a $400 million fine." Cool. They're trillionaires. Like, what do we care? 59:20 Like, [laughs] they... Like, to normal people, you hear $400 million fine, "Oh, they really went after them." And they're like, "Cool, we're worth like 7.9 billion." 59:29 [laughs] Like, that's, that's- That's pocket change to them. Yeah... exactly. But you can, you can tout that. You can put that up. Biggest fine. Like, they'll, whatever the biggest fine a team has ever got, 59:39 they'll pick that. That's what it'll be. And it'll be the most transfer bans a team has ever got. That's what it'll be. It will not be points. They will not be getting points off. All right. Let's tie this up. 59:50 Dexter, what do you, what do you want to happen? Um- [laughs] You know they'll doubt it... I don't think, they're, they're not gonna get relegated. They're not gonna get relegated. Not league. Not league. 59:57 [laughs] No, but what do you want to happen? Not what do you think will happen. What do you want to happen? What I want to happen? Uh, points, uh, taken from them at the beginning of the next season. Okay. That's it. 1:00:07 How many points? 10, 15, 60? Um, 15. And, uh, 'cause the way I look at it is like this. I look at, I like to think all the players, even Coventry and Ipswich, are like, "We don't care. We wanna beat you. 1:00:19 We don't care about none of that. All this stuff we're talking about, don't care." [laughs] Mm. Nobody cares. As far as professional players- That's all them. That's, that's over there. Huh? Like, that's over there. 1:00:29 What'd you say? It got nothing to do with me. Yeah. I, I wanna beat you on the pitch. The professional players are going, "I wanna face those professional players and beat them." That's it. Yeah. So- That's fair... 1:00:37 let, let everything go the way it's going, take some points off next, uh, season, and that's that. Simple as that. All right. It's fair. I, I wouldn't, I wouldn't be opposed to that. I don't, I don't- Yeah... 1:00:49 I can't see that, that being the outcome, but I wouldn't be opposed to that. I think if they started next season minus 20, that'd be fun, at least. [laughs] It would, it would at least be fun. That'd be awesome. Yeah. 1:01:01 Yeah, because, so they finish- Fight your way through that, buddies... [laughs] so they finish mid-table. Like, what are, what are we worried about? Like- You know, 90, 90 minus 20 is 70. They're fine. 1:01:11 Like, [laughs] they're not going anywhere. Yeah. But, so now that we're done talking about the biggest villains of the Premier League era, um- Let's talk about our favorite villains. Yes. 1:01:20 [laughs] So because it's the international week, um, or the international break, and football fans apparently hate, uh, international football, [laughs] there's been- [laughs]... 1:01:30 going around, there's been a lot of, like, construct your, like, all animal 11. Um, so I thought- Damn, animals. What are we doing? Why do we want animals? That's insane. [laughs]... it would be more fun 1:01:40 to construct an 11 of pop culture's greatest villains of all time. Um- Hell yeah. So I think we're gonna go through each of our 11s. We, we've all got- I'm letting you know, my team's unbeatable. My team is unbeatable. 1:01:55 Yeah. And, and talk, and your bench. Go through the bench too. Oh, yeah. Not even close. Wait till, wait till you see my, my holding midfielder, my, my Rodri. Just wait. You, you can't be beaten. 1:02:08 Um- Now look, I, I think when- Wait, are we gonna go each- Oh, so who, who wants to go first? Who wants to go first? Are we, are we each going by position? We're gonna go through each of our 11s. 1:02:15 Uh, let me bring this up. Oh, we're gonna go position by position? Ah. Okay. Yeah. Or one, or one team by one team. All right. Probably one team by one team for Kevin, 'cause he's gotta pull it up, so. Oh, yeah. 1:02:26 Yeah, we're gonna start with Dexter, and we're just gonna go through- Okay... your team. So start from the back. Okay. Go to the top, and then we'll do manager last. Uh, first I'll, I'll, I'll... 1:02:35 Let me say who my manager is. My manager is Keyser Söze. Oh, [laughs] God damn. Honorable mention- Oh... because it was... I'm gonna, let me just put this out here. I, I don't know if anybody picked this. 1:02:46 It's either Keyser Söze or John Kramer from, uh, Saw. It's one of the two. Oh. That's a good one too. That, that- Good shout... he was not on my list. All right... but Keyser Söze is a great fucking pick. 1:02:56 That is a great pick. Keyser Söze's the manager. Um- Ver- Verbal Clint? Yeah. Yeah. I'm, I'm, I'm already a little worried- Yeah... about my team now. 1:03:03 Now that you went, now that you went that hard early, I'm very worried. Yeah. [laughs] Um, all right. Go- goalkeeper, Thanos. [laughs] All right? Oh. Yeah, yeah. And Thanos- He, he... You got, you gotta explain this... 1:03:15 Thanos had a goal and a purpose. [laughs] And he was gonna go through with his purpose no matter what it meant, and we need a goalkeeper like that, who's gonna keep the defense in line. Okay. 1:03:23 [laughs] And by the way, though, Thanos, he wants everything to be 50/50, so I feel like he's letting in half the shots just because. [laughs] Oh, yeah. I don't know. [laughs] I don't know about that. Yeah. All right. 1:03:34 Thanos, goalkeeper. He was 50/50. I'm looking for reasons to hate. No. No, you know, he was, he was 50/50. He wants either his team or the other team to, to stay, stay on the pitch at the end, so you get- Yeah, yeah. 1:03:43 Okay, fair enough. A little- I, I'll go with that. I mean, if nothing else, he's massive. Yes. He, he is big. And he can lead. He is big. He, he, he's a leader. He's a leader. Mm-hmm. Um- All right. 1:03:53 [laughs] Left back- We're at Thanos in goal. Oh, we're going left back next. All right. Yeah. Left back is a, a wild pick, but Tong Po from Kickboxer. Oh. [laughs] I like that pick. I like that pick. Okay? Nice. 1:04:05 Athletic. Just, just the appearance of, of savagery. [laughs] We need that kind of left... And he, he's athletic. He can get up the pitch. Oh, he's... He is gonna be bombing up and down- Yeah... that wing all game. 1:04:18 [laughs] Right. So, so- I love that pick. All right. Um- That is a classy pick... s- uh, c- center back or left center back is Ronan the Accuser from, uh- Oh... Ga- Guardians of the Galaxy, because he knows- Nah... 1:04:30 uh, how to work with Thanos. Thanos. He does. You know what? Okay. It's good. It's good to have it. 1:04:35 I, I p- I tried to make sure on my team that I didn't take too many people from the same universe, but if you're gonna have Thanos, Ronan the Accuser, he was, he was a lackey. He will definitely listen to Thanos- Yes... 1:04:45 and he will, he will- Absolutely... marshal... Yeah. And he's not willing to put the hammer down- He don't, he-... obviously... you see where I, yeah, you see where I'm going with that. Yeah. [laughs] Oh, yeah. 1:04:55 Um, left center back, Anton Chigurh from No Country for Old Men. Now, are we allowed to pick the same people? I don't know the other four men. You can pick whoever you want. Yeah, yeah. Oh, okay. 'Cause... All right. 1:05:06 All right. No, let's let the pod- let's let the people listening know we did not tell anyone what our teams were, because I will tell you that Anton Chigurh is also on my back line. [laughs] All right, so you did. 1:05:16 [laughs] All right. That's good. We, we went together. Anton Chigurh's- Love it... the center back. Yeah. W- S- He's, he's ruthless, don't care. Yeah. And that's the kind of guy you need playing center back. He... 1:05:27 And, and you need him at the right center back. He is just gonna- Yes. He doesn't- Yes. If that ball's coming in, he's killing it. A- absolutely. Amazing work rate. Amazing work rate. [laughs] He doesn't stop. 1:05:36 Absolutely. Absolutely. He, he gets the job done. Now, now here's the, the, the wild card at right back, but we need a loose cannons like this. Tommy DeVito from Goodfellas. That's a good pick. 1:05:47 [laughs] That's a good pick. All right? Just a wild card. Tommy DeVito. Just- Love it... absolutely won't help. [laughs] Love it. Absolutely out of control. You don't, you don't know what you're gonna get. You know? 1:05:56 You don't know if he's gonna- [laughs]... he could play a blinder and have three assists, or- Yeah... he could get red carded in the fourth minute. You don't know. Absolutely. 1:06:03 [laughs] You don't know what's gonna happen, but people know that- Oh, this is already going-... if you, if you, if, if you can get- This is going so much better than I hoped already. 1:06:10 [laughs] This is already going so much better. If you can get off with a, a, a kick in the shin- [laughs]... and get a yellow and not get kicked o- get out, we're doing all right. [laughs] There you go. 1:06:17 But we need that kind of guy. We need that kind of savage. [laughs] Um, midfield. Uh, defen- uh, defensive midfielder is Boyd Crowder from Justified. My, m- m- my midfield- Oh... my midfield is all hitters. 1:06:33 I didn't watch that show, but I'll trust you. Oh, I never watched that show. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'll trust you. All right. B- Excellent show, by the way. Excellent show. Um, but- Is that, like, the main guy in the... 1:06:41 Oh, wait. I'm, I'm thinking of the motorcycle show, not Just... What's the... Yeah, definitely, yeah, sure. No, no, nah, nah. This is a different one. Yeah, Justified. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. For sure. 1:06:48 So Boyd Crowder's defensive. Um, the box to box midfielder is Bodhi from Point Break, P- Patrick Swayze. Yeah. You took that guy off my fucking bench. All right, right or left? You took that guy off my bench. 1:06:59 Is he your right eight or your left eight? I, [laughs] he, and the reason is Bodhi is, is a wild card. He wants to run up and down. He wants to do the wild stuff. He's an athlete. He wants to- That- Yeah. 1:07:10 He wants to do that... he's got endurance. He, he's a daredevil. He don't care. Yeah. Yeah. But those waves are tough. He's got, he's got lu- he's got tons of endurance 1:07:16 Is he your, is he your right eight or your left eight? Um, he's my- Right side or left? He's gonna be my, my right eight. Okay. That makes sense. All right. We got, we got Bodhi in there. All right. All right. 1:07:29 And then the next midfielder, a, a absolute orchestrator of things, and this is why I was surprised to hear his name earlier today, Gus Fring- [laughs]... is the next midfielder. 1:07:43 Yes He's the one who's gonna, uh, he's going forward and, and making things happen. All right? He's knitting it together. Now, now- He's- Now- He's seeing spaces before you even know they're open. Absolutely. 1:07:54 Dude, Kevin- That's Gus Fring... now, Kevin- All right? 1:07:56 Yeah, Kevin, you said you don't know Breaking Bad, so Gus Fring i- runs a meth empire out of basically out of this chicken chain restaurant he started, but he still works in the chicken restaurant day to day. 1:08:09 My man puts in the work. He's got a billion dollars, [laughs] and he's still slinging chicken every single day. Absolutely. My man is- Absolutely... my man is ruthless and brilliant. That is an amazing call. 1:08:19 So that's- Amazing call... that's it. So that's the midfield. Midfield. All right. And now, [laughs] uh, right wing, Joffrey Baratheon. All right. Tell me why- Ooh... Joffrey on the right. [laughs] Ooh. Um... 1:08:35 He's a little slight, like- Yeah, he's a little... That's why. He's fast, but he- You don't think he's gonna get bullied out there? No, no. As long as he could- I mean, the man got taken down by a pie... 1:08:42 as long as he could get cro- [laughs] as long as he could get the crosses in, and that's what I need. A quick, slight, he, he, he's deceptive and, and ruthless in his, uh, his r- his running. He doesn't care. 1:08:54 Well, I feel like he was a fan of a crossbow, so I'll, I'll allow it. [laughs] Yeah. Yeah, and, and he's me- he's, he's mental. He thinks he's better than everybody. 1:09:02 That's what you need, somebody who doesn't care, just gonna go and, you know. And he'll probably fall- Mm-hmm... as soon as he gets hit, like, as if to get a call. Um, the left wing- Just, just the full soccer? Yeah. 1:09:13 [laughs] The left wing, Benny Blanco from The Bronx, from Carlito's Way. Oh. [laughs] Good call. Oh, definitely one of- Benny Blanco... the old, old choices. Where are you, Benny? Slick, we need slick runners, man. 1:09:26 We need slick runners. All right? [laughs] We need slick runners, and- There you are... and Benny- My man, John Leguizamo. What, what a- Yes... what a, what a movie- Benny Blanco... what a character. So good. 1:09:35 And then at striker, undeniably don't give a damn about nothing but to win is Ramsay Bolton from Game of Thrones. Oh. [laughs] Two Game of Thrones. Good choice. Yeah. He's little though. He's a little guy. 1:09:49 He's a little guy. He's a... Yeah, but, but he- So he's a rare- Yeah, he's a poacher. He's a poacher, man. He's a poacher. He is. He is. Fox, he's a fox in the box. Yeah. Yeah. Or, or a hound in the box, as it were. 1:09:58 All right. I, I, I wanna talk about my- I mean, I love the whole... Go ahead. 1:10:02 Well, we'll, we'll, we wanna hit bench after all, uh, all do our starters 'cause, look, I love that starter, but- Yeah, let's all do our starters first... oh, I got- Let's all do our starters... I got that beat. 1:10:09 I got that beat. I got that beat. You want me to go next? Go ahead. All right. All right, give me a second. All right. Let me... All right, pull me up. All right. 1:10:17 So we're starting goal, and just like Dex, I'm thinking big. But honestly, I think my guy is bigger and has shown that he's nimble. And, uh, now, 1:10:29 he doesn't end up as the villain, but he definitely starts as a villain and he goes to bad and on. I'm putting Wreck-It Ralph in my goal. [laughs] Nine foot tall, nine foot tall, 300 something pounds. Oh, man. 1:10:42 That's a monster. That's- That is a monster in the back. Oh, man. That is a monster in the back. Look, you're gonna have some justifying to do 'cause Wreck-It Ralph is the hero in the story. He goes to bad and on. 1:10:50 He literally has a whole thing about I'm bad, but that's not good. I may not be good, but that's not bad. He's a bad guy. Oh, yeah, a lot- He accepts his fate. 1:10:58 He is- A lot of people look at him like a hero, but that's okay... he's the bad guy- All right, I'll-... in Wreck-It Ralph. He, in his game- I'll allow it... he is the bad guy. Good. Okay? I'll allow it. All right. 1:11:07 All right, so we're going to, I got the three, uh, the three center backs now, right? Yeah, give me right center back first. All right, right center back. 1:11:14 Look, you need a guy who is powerful, who's fast, and a bit of a loose cannon sometimes maybe, but he's the most insane person you can have on the team. We're going Homelander. Homelander is my right center back. 1:11:28 [laughs] Okay. All right. All right. All right. We've got Homelander right center back. All right, left center back. All right. 1:11:34 And now next to Homelander, you need a guy who is much more calm and composed but just as crazy because he needs to marshal everyone around, and this is where I go, I'm, I'm matching with Dex. 1:11:44 This is where I have Anton Figuer. Anton. Yeah, Anton Figuer. Right on. We all- You, you didn't even need to say his name and I knew that's who you were picking. [laughs] Yeah, exactly. Listen- Exactly... 1:11:52 w- w- we, we knew he... So we've all said he's a defender, he's a center back. Oh, yeah. We all, we both said that. He's a... Look, look, high work rate- We both said that... but, like, he doesn't need the glory. 1:12:00 He just, like, he wants to get shit done that he's told to do. All right? Uh-huh. You go, "Go, go cow bolt the guy in the head," perfect. He's good. All right. Yes. 1:12:08 And my other center ba- left center back, he's, um, he's a bit of a beefier guy, but I want some, you know, I want some, uh, muscle back there. 1:12:16 Also, he's beefy, but he's not afraid to go up against a guy who is much more athletic than him and definitely could beat his ass. Give me Bennett from Commando. [laughs] Ah, there we go, Dex. Okay. There it is. Okay. 1:12:29 There we go. That's a reference I, I could dig. There we go. I could dig that reference. That, that, uh- All right. Uh, so now we're- I could dig that. I could dig that... I'm gonna swing out... Yeah. 1:12:37 [laughs] I'm gonna swing out to my- And, and s- so I go, podcast friends, watch your movies if you don't know who that is. Oh, yeah, yeah. Please. Go watch all these movies. Bennett from Commando is great. 1:12:45 Watch the movies. He, he also comes back from the dead. That movie gave me- He fakes his own death. It's impressive... that, that movie gave me unrealistic expectations of how easily car seats come out of cars. You- Oh. 1:12:55 Not only kids car seats. And- I mean, the seats in the car... how easily you can throw a pipe through a person's torso. No, you could do that. All those things. I've done it. [laughs] All right. 1:13:03 So I'm gonna go, uh- No, you can easily javelin a four-inch cast iron pipe through a man's chest- [laughs] Insane... easily. Hey, let off some steam. Perfect. [laughs] It's a great ass movie. 1:13:12 [laughs] Please watch Commando. It is stupid. Dan Hedaya is insane in it. It's great. Uh, all right. I'm gonna swing over to right wing back, Kevin. So now right wing back- Okay... 1:13:21 look, we're looking for speed and also endurance. Yeah, it's, it's right here. It's right here. It's, it's the T-1000, isn't it? I'm going... No. Oh. It's Agent Smith. Okay. It's Agent Smith. Oh, fair. 1:13:33 My man has shown that he has the- Oh. Oh. He can stay in. Mm. He can, he can get it done. He's, he's tough. [laughs] He's not, he, you know, he doesn't give up easily. Perfect. All right. 1:13:43 Now- Let's go with- It does seem like there's more than one of him on the pitch sometimes, right? [laughs] Sometimes. [laughs] Exactly. Sometimes. 1:13:48 Now, we're gonna swing over to left wing back, which I guarantee this is someone that none of you ever picked, but he will utilize his skills as a fun runner to get up and down the pitch for me. 1:14:00 Give me Simon Skinner from Hot Fuzz. Simon Skinner. [laughs] Great. Ah. [laughs] Timothy Dalton playing Simon Skinner. All right. All right. For the greater good. I love that guy. One of my favorite movies. 1:14:13 I put a lot of thought into this goddamn thing. One of my favorite movies. I put a lot of thought into this. That's a, that's a- Now-... classic... back- Watch a movie, podcast friends. Watch a movie. 1:14:22 That's a good one... watch Hot Fuzz. Hot Fuzz is great. That is- Please watch Hot Fuzz... amazing. Are we a movie podcast now? [laughs] I think we are. A little bit. The great and the good. All right. 1:14:30 The great and the good. [laughs] The great... Stop saying that. [laughs] Think of Billy Shakespeare. What? Oh. [laughs] Well, there was this moment- All right. Now-... 1:14:38 where I hit him with the peace lily and I said, "Chill out." [laughs] No, I said, "Play time's over." Come on, man. Oh. Get it right. Right. All right. He, he said- I distracted him with the monkey... 1:14:47 you say chill out when he threw him into the cooler. And he's like, "You're bad at... No, you're off the chain." Love that movie. So good. Cornetto Trilogy. I'm sorry. [laughs] Watch it. 1:14:54 All right, so I'm moving into, this'll be, uh, I guess left center mid. We're calling it? Yeah. All right. Yep. Yeah. This is a guy, it's a character who also actually played this position in the Premier League. 1:15:10 Give me- I know who it is... Bullet Tooth Tony. Can I say- Vinnie Jones. Bullet Tooth Tony. Of course. Hell yeah. Of course. Bul- Bullet Tooth Tony. 'Cause my, [laughs] mine says Desert Eagle 5.0 down the side. 1:15:22 The Crazy Punch. And yours says Replica. Awesome. Crazy Punch Wimbledon. Hell yeah. Classic. The Dons. Classic. Classic. What a, what a player. The hard, the hard man of the Premier League. He, I got him there. 1:15:33 Now, since I got a bunch of hard men, I got Sagor, I got Bennet, I got Homelander, I need someone clever who can maybe mess with the other team's mind a little bit, and this guy can mess with the other team's mind a lot. 1:15:46 Kill me... And, uh, Dex, I don't know if you know this one. Kevin, I don't know if you know it. Kill me... Is it Killgore or Killgrave? [laughs] I can't... I don't know which I wrote it twice. 1:15:54 From Jessica Jones, the, uh, the character played by David Tennant- Yes. Yeah... where he- Yeah. David Tennant... so I wanted him. David Tennant. Yeah. David Tennant's character. I know it. Uh- Yeah... is it Killgore? 1:16:03 It's Killgore, right? Killgore? Killgo- Killgrave... tough, tough, tough villain. Very tough villain. Killgore- Very good. That's a Killgore... 1:16:08 if you get close to him, he can talk to you in your ear and make you do- Yeah... anything he wants. That is a great- You're screwed if you get close... clever defender. That's a great clever defender. Very good. 1:16:18 This team is getting amazing. This is my center midfield. This is a guy who... Look, I need a high work rate out of you. I need tenacity. I need intelligence. I need the ability to do anything that needs to be done. 1:16:33 Give me the guy who beat Black Panther one on one. Give me Killmonger as my center mid. [laughs] I like, I like how much Kill is in the middle of your- I know... midfield. Yeah, I know. Got a lot of Kill, don't I? 1:16:46 I know. I was very... By the way, I was very happy with it. I was, like, super excited when I got a bunch of them. Got Killmonger and Killgrave. Killgrave. Perfect. Killmonger. 1:16:52 And look, uh, Killmonger is easily probably the best athlete on my team and, you know, he's won. I guarantee it's gonna be close. Give me my, uh, give me my left striker. Now, I want someone who has, uh, 1:17:07 the ability to, like, you know, maybe become invisible to defen- defense, but also athletic. He can get up and down the field, and he's really hard to find. Like, he's just, he's so sneaky. Give me the Predator. 1:17:22 Predator, front left D. I mean, front left attack. Right. Dex, no? What, you don't like- Come on, man. There, I mean, uh, okay... you, you don't, you don't, you don't like the choice of Predator? He makes you freak out. 1:17:32 [laughs] You don't like the choice of Predator? And- I mean, he's a hunter... well, he is a... Now- He's gonna hunt the ball... he's gonna be on the right side All right... a guy who we're just gonna bomb them down. 1:17:43 And you know what? He's, he's malleable. He's malleable. He can do anything you want him to do. He can literally be anyone you want him to be, because he's the T-1000. The T-1000 right wing. The T-1000. Boom. 1:17:59 And if you want now, and manager, I'll go manager last. Manager, you know what? Sometimes you gotta come up with a plan that's out of bounds, out of the box. You don't understand. It might be a little tricky. 1:18:12 Like, maybe you gotta be a little tricky. Give me Loki. Loki as my manager, as Tom Hiddleston. The, that Loki. Not, not, [laughs] not Matt Damon from, uh, [laughs] from, uh... Well, what's the stupid Kevin Smith movie? 1:18:26 From, uh- Dogma... Dogma? Not from Dogma. Oh, from Dogma? [laughs] Not from Dogma. I want Tom Hiddleston Loki. Oh, I forgot to- That is my-... put him in Adam... that is my squad. 1:18:39 Oh, and, uh, oh, we're doing bench later, right? Bench squad. We, we're doing the bench after. Sorry, I forgot to, I forgot, I forgot to save Tom, uh, save Loki earlier. Ah, don't worry. No worries. 1:18:47 [laughs] We all have, we all have Loki. You, you can put any Loki in. That's fine. Nope, we're go- we're, we're, we're adding him. Oh, perfect. Loki. And then we'll come back to us. Oh, he's such a good actor. 1:18:59 He's so good. I love that they killed him off. They're like, "Ah, let's find another series for him." [laughs] Like, everyone loves this guy. Bring him back. Bring him back. Bring him. By the way, uh- Let's go see him. 1:19:10 Sure... everyone, you know, if you're, you know, one of the 10 people... 10 people. Four people- 10? [laughs]... watching this, um, if you wanna build your own Villains 11, head on over to playfantasypredictor.com/lineup 1:19:25 Set yourself up, uh, an account and you can upload up to 30, uh, unique photos. You can make your own. Villains 11. You could... Hey, if you wanna do that lame-ass Animals 11, go for it. 1:19:41 No, that's- But- We, we did a- But- We did people. Well, for the most part. So. Hey, Joan Swift, send us a screenshot of what you pick, 'cause I know, I know you're listening. I wanna see your Swift team. 1:19:50 Yeah, Sean, I, I wanna... If, if you do this, Sean, I gotta see this. Yeah, throw it. Throw in the- Swift, we're talking about... throw your screenshots in the comments. We would love to look at them. Yeah, right. Yeah. 1:19:57 So. Perfect. Perfect. So here's Mr. Sean Stafford's 3-5-2, uh- I- unbeatable. I- You're not scoring against me. I got a knife and golden goal I, I don't, I don't trust that back line Big goalies. I want... 1:20:09 I don't trust that back. Bennett, Anton Chigurh, Homelander? What are you talking about? Homelander is gonna... Homelander is not reliable, is all I'm gonna say, as a r- [laughs] as a center back. 1:20:19 He's- Homelander's got mental problems, man. He's got- He's out sliding on the pitch... that's what I'm saying. That's what Anton Chigurh is for. That's what Anton Chigurh is for. 1:20:25 [laughs] He's gonna li- he's gonna keep everyone in line. All right. Here's, here's the definitive winning d- j- villains starting 11. [laughs] Starting from goalkeeper. When you lose this- There is only-... 1:20:40 so bad, I'm gonna laugh... there is only one choice here. He has six arms. It's Doc Ock. There's, there's no other option. Ah. [laughs] There's no other option. Oh, man. Try, try to score on your man. 1:20:57 Try to score on your man. Ah. He's... It's not happening. Doc Ock, absolutely, all day, every day. That's your boy. I... Man, I want, I wanted to hate on your shit. I'm already pissed off. That's a great choice. 1:21:08 That's a great fucking choice. Great challenge. Oh. On my, on my, my right s- on his right side, again, I, like you Dex, I like a wild card. 1:21:20 Uh, I like a guy who's just gonna kinda go, go ham, do his own thing, bomb up and down, and his initials are RB. I'm also going Ramsey Bolton, but as my right back. [laughs] Okay. 1:21:33 I can see him playing the, uh, right back. I can see that, too. Hold on. Fair enough. You're picking a guy who lost the Battle of the Bastards. He lost. He lost. Th- th- he's a wild card, man. 1:21:42 He can play wild card on you, dude. He, he needs to put crosses in. He, he... Yeah. You picked a loser. Oh. You picked a loser. Did you see the number of- Hey, he could be a, he could be a dirty striker, goal poacher. 1:21:51 He don't care. He just think about himself. Did you see how many, did you see how many arrows he purposely missed, John Snow? I would take him on USA over Dest right now. He's accurate. 1:21:59 I would take Ramsey Bolton over Dest right now. He's accurate. [laughs] All right, good choice. Oh. Not bad. Not bad. Mm-hmm. I'm glad we have some overlap. 1:22:08 [laughs] I, I, I thought we had, I thought we'd have no overlap. Yeah. Mm-hmm. So on my- Me too. I'm good. I like this... in my right center back, as right center back in a back four, you need... 1:22:18 That's, that's the position that is just, like, soul-crushing. He's gonna eat up every ball. He's just gonna make your striker not want to move. He's gonna make your striker not wanna be out there. Mm. 1:22:31 Find any available opportunity to get away from your right center back, and there is only one individual who can play that, and that is the Dementor- Oh... from Harry Potter. God damn. Oh. 1:22:45 So- See, I don't, I don't watch Harry Potter... s- But I, I'll go with that... s- No, no... so cr- He's weak. They are weak and wave-ish, and if you shine a bright light at him, he's gonna go away. 1:22:54 He's, he's soul- I fully-... crushing. No, but he- And he can hear your thoughts. He knows your runs. Nah. But if you're bright and, if you're bright and lively... Also, he can't see the Predator. 1:23:05 The Predator, he can't see the Predator, so the Predator's scoring on him immediately. Immediately. Just letting you know, putting my team against yours, let the Predator go up against the Dementor any day. Any day. 1:23:18 All right. My left center back. Yeah. I need, I need a s- I need a silky ball-playing left back, guy who can conduct the pitch. He can put the ball anywhere he wants. 1:23:28 He can move the pieces around the field as he sees fit, and there is only one man for the job, and that's Magneto. Everyone still wears... [laughs] Everyone's still got a little bit of metal in their cleats. 1:23:39 [laughs] He's moving everybody around the pitch. He's 100. Uh, yeah, see. Ah. [laughs] Okay. All right. What, what? Henry, Henry's on the pitch this morning. I, I'm, uh- I'm like, "There's no metal on the ball." 1:23:49 I'm, I'm looking, I'm looking more he's a leader on the, on the pitch. I'm not looking, about him trying to pull the metal out cleats and stuff. [laughs] He's, he's crushing. He's 100. He's 100,000. He's gonna... 1:24:00 Doesn't matter. He's gonna put the ball wherever he wants. Okay. I know I'm playing Magneto. Giuseppe played until he was 35. I'm winning. Vincent Kompany played till he was 36. Cool. Guess what? 1:24:08 When we play you- Classic player... everybody, plastic cleats, no metal spikes. Now I'm running past a fucking septuagenarian you have in defense. [laughs] That's just, that's just because that's the, the- [laughs] 1:24:22 Plastic cleats exist. Holy hell. [laughs] Plastic cleats exist. All right. Left back. [laughs] I'm going with my man Scar. He's, he's just an animal. You picked an animal, you fucking asshole. He doesn't give a fuck. 1:24:34 [laughs] He's, he's going ham on my left wing. What? He is running day and night. He's tearing your ass apart. That's my left back all day. I don't know. He's a little fae. He... 1:24:44 [laughs] It seems like he only runs when he wants to. Ah, doesn't matter. [laughs] Now, here's, here's, here's where we get into it. Okay. Y- y- your midfield- My-... 1:24:53 better be good, because we're running past your 1,000-year-old man who can only control metal when there's no metal on the field. You don't, you're not gonna get to the midfield, because my... 1:25:02 Or to the, to the back line, because my midfield destroyer is the greatest living weapon of all time, and it is the Dalek. Oh. [laughs] What? Literally exterminates everything. He is a- Who is that? 1:25:19 [laughs] You scumbag. Who is that? It's from Dr. Who. Oh, gosh. He has an absolute laser beam. Oh, you scumbag. He has, he has a literal laser beam. I knew it immediately, you frigging nerd. 1:25:34 And he is exterminating everything before it happens Mm-hmm... that you're destroy- you're, you're not getting past the Dalek. You're just not. He's slow, though. You're not happening. He's slow. He has a laser beam. 1:25:46 [laughs] Yeah, well, Homelander has laser beam eyes. Like, I could have, I could just melt everyone- Just wait... in the field. You will wait. Is this what we're doing? [laughs] You will wait. Okay. Okay. 1:25:58 [laughs] So next, so you have your midfield destroyer. Now you need- Perfect... you need the vision- Your slow b- okay. 1:26:05 You need the guy who can see all the passes, puts the play together, your num- you know, you know, your number six. There's only one person in all of Middle Earth for that. Who? Literally sees everything. Sauron. 1:26:20 It's, it's Sauron. Sauron? There's, he's an eyeball. He can't move. It's a freaking eye. [laughs] He's an eyeball. There's no better vision. Who has better vision than Sauron? 1:26:29 But, but he can't do anything with that vision. What is he... He should be your manager. I, I totally, I totally divide team wrong. He needs to be your manager. I really divide team wrong. 1:26:36 Guy's picking eyes and- [laughs]... Dalek eyes. [laughs] You guys are trying to pick actual, like, physical pl- like, no. [laughs] I'm, I'm picking villains like dirty villains. Dex, you and I did it right. 1:26:47 Kevin right now is, is off the fucking chains. You're, no, you're both wrong. You're both wrong. Sauron has- So you have... Hold on. You're telling me you have a mountain in the middle of the field. 1:26:55 I could go around that quite easily. [laughs] You're being too literal. Like, unless he's controlling Orcs. You're being too literal. No, I'm not. You're being too literal. That's the whole point of this thing. 1:27:04 It'll be great content. Don't worry. It's not- Also-... it's not the whole point of this thing. 1:27:07 By the way, Henry picked a version of Sauron that you should probably have realized, 'cause Henry and his team- Wait, the witch-king? No, he had Prime Sauron when he had the ring before he was a fucking eyeball. 1:27:19 Eh, whatever. He doesn't see everything. I need a player with vision. [laughs] Sauron sees everything. Player with vision. Except for the hobbits, but that's, we'll, we'll go deep. [laughs] On my right wing, uh, 1:27:32 I, I need a player with speed, with tenacity, with energy. Yeah, 'cause you have a mountain. [laughs] Shut up. [laughs] And a robot- I'm going home... that can't move. [laughs] You've never even watched Doctor Who. 1:27:43 You don't know they can't move. I'm going home. I know what the Daleks, I know what the Daleks are. I've seen them. Look, nobody talked this much through yours, so just shut your mouth. 1:27:51 Yeah, but we're making fun of yours, which is extra fun. Mine is, it honestly is the best team. You can't beat it. Yo, Homelander's my right wing. [laughs] Oh, yeah. Homelander? Okay. Homelander. That's a good pick. 1:28:02 That's a good pick. There's overlap. A guy who actually moves. There's definitely decent overlap. And who's not an eyeball on the top of a mountain. Homelander. 1:28:11 And then on the- Homelander gets a lot of love in these games. All right, on, on the left side I needed somebody who's shifty, you know, can get in and out of tight spaces. 1:28:21 You know, you kinda don't know where they're gonna pop up. Always, you know, kinda changing up what they're gonna do. Nightcrawler is not a villain. Uh, it's Pennywise the Dancing Clown. Oh, okay. All right. Yeah. 1:28:33 All right. All right. That's, that's pretty good. All right. That's pretty good. That's pretty good. All right. Uh- I'll give you that one. All right. 1:28:39 And then for my number 10, I wanted somebody who's gonna be, like, hungry for the ball. Always wanting it, always showing for it, moving. Just, like, has that, that appetite to, like, just to, to be the man on the pitch. 1:28:55 And there's only one human alive for that. It's Hannibal Lecter. [laughs] Oh, when you said hungry, I was, I was like, I was going through my head looking possibly- You were, you were setting that up... 1:29:12 I was going through- You were lea- you were leading us into that. Had you picked Jeffrey Dahmer, that would've been funny, too. [laughs] Like, that would've been fucking great. 1:29:17 It would've been good, but we're going- [laughs]... we're going movie, pop culture villains, not actual villains. Oh, that's awesome. That, th- that... All right, Lecter's pretty good. He is slow, though. 1:29:25 He's, he's been in, he's been solitary for a while, so I don't know. I don't know if he's stretched his legs on, uh, [laughs] on, you know, Anthrax Island yet. Yeah. 1:29:34 And then up top, I got a guy who just will press you into the ground. He just does not stop coming. Wave after wave. Your man is just relentless. Does not give up. Never slows down. 1:29:53 It's the T-1000. That's my choice. [laughs] Oh, gosh. Not bad. Not bad. So can we... Th- that's pretty good. I mean, my team's obviously the best, but can I give you... Henry had a couple suggestions. 1:30:04 But wait, I still have my, I still have my manager. Oh, who's your manager? Are, are you picking the one that we all discussed, and then are we all gonna not officially pick that one? 1:30:11 [laughs] The, none of us are picking Hans Gruber because that's the, that's- [laughs] It would be too easy... obviously the easy shout. Um, I had, I, I had a couple thoughts, as, as you know. 1:30:20 So, uh, obviously Hans Gruber, but that's, you know, that's, that's cop-out. That's the easy, you know, criminal m- mastermind. Moriarty, criminal mastermind. Easy way out. 1:30:32 I came down between two, and I'm kinda gonna make a split decision, like, in this moment, and I am between two people who just, they, they command their armies. They are locked in. They are in sync. They are moving 1:30:51 everyone into the right positions. They are conducting the orchestra, so to speak. Um, and the nerd in me is going to pick- Oh, please tell me you're thinking the one I'm thinking of. 1:31:01 Please tell me you're thinking the one I'm thinking of. The Borg Queen. Oh. [laughs] What? The Borg Queen? I was, I was, I was thinking you were gonna pick Evil Ash- Never mind... from Army of Darkness. [laughs] Okay. 1:31:14 That's not bad. So this is the- That's not bad... definitive and obviously- I mean, you're third place... best- The third place team, obviously. Dex is second, I'm first. You're so- That... The... 1:31:23 You, you have a r- You're not even, not even close... you've got a robot that can't move and a mountain. You have a mountain with an eyeball on it. First of all, I have the most evolved species in the cosmos, the Dalek. 1:31:37 Um, they exterminate everyone. It's a robot with a laser. It's not a robot. It is a-... alien in a shell, in a, in a, um, mech suit ostensibly [laughs] Okay, cool. How is it hitting The Predator? With its lasers. 1:31:53 The- you can't see it It has heat vision just like The Predator does. You- yeah, but you- You don't even know... couldn't see The Predator with heat vision. The Predator can just cloak. It cloaks. You don't see him. 1:32:02 The Da- the Dalek- Also, Homela-... sees everything... all right, you wanna break out lasers? Uh, each of our Homelanders will just laser the Dalek to death. [laughs] Like [laughs] Oh my gosh. 1:32:10 It's not, it's not happening. [laughs] This is obviously the definitive- This was so much fun... villains 11. 1:32:15 So, uh, I g- g- give, I'll give you Henry a couple of his, uh, a couple of his just picks that I thought were good. Uh, so I mentioned Prime Sauron as a... 1:32:23 'Cause you were trying to have a mountain, and Henry's like, "How about the guy who just has the actual ring of power on his hand?" Uh, he also picked, uh, Saruman in defense, so he was gonna go full, uh- Wow... 1:32:34 you know- Really? Yeah, full... Yeah. Then, uh, so he went with a he- Saruman's a pussy. All he did is sit in that tower the whole time. Yeah, man, he knocked people around with his staff a little bit. He's a pussy. 1:32:44 This is Henry's picks, not mine. Relax. Uh, so d- Well, he's wrong... his back line was Prime Sauron, uh, the Red Hulk villain, good choice, Saruman. There it is. Yeah. 1:32:53 Uh, in goal, in goal he came up, and he told me that, like, the name, I had to actually look it up. It's called the World Serpent. It is a Norse snake that got so big it encircled the Earth and became an Ouroboros. Yeah. 1:33:07 So he put that in goal, which, hard to argue [laughs] about something that big in goal. Nice. Uh, on his left wi- Okay... on, so- Seems, seems, seems a little on the nose, I mean. Yeah, a little bit. 1:33:17 So left wing back, you want a guy with some speed. He went A-Train, who definitely starts out as a villain. You can ca- he, he, he- All right. All right... he explode- Okay... he explodes an innocent woman. 1:33:27 That is a villain. A-Train from the first two seasons. Yes. Yeah, I mean, look, he, yeah, and he kind of sucks the whole time. Uh, Rick Sanchez- Yeah, he's a jerk... on his right wing back. 1:33:37 You know, I was like, by the way, he's- How is he watching that show? But cool... you shouldn't be watching Rick and Morty. Um- [laughs]... his cen- so his, like, central defensive midfielder, he went with Beetlejuice. 1:33:46 He's like, "He can make shit happen. He can make people do what he wants. He can move people around." I was like, "You know what? Not a bad choice. Not bad." Not better than Dalek, sorry. 1:33:56 It's better than a thing that no one's ever heard of, so yes. Um, yeah, the, I don't know, he had Black Fla- I don't know, Black Flash is- All you have to do is say his name three times. The... [laughs] Nope. 1:34:05 Then, then he shows up. Bye. That's... [laughs] Anyway. Bye, see you later. Uh, his left defensive mid, I don't even know. His right defensive mid, though, he was like, "You know what? I'm going big." He went Dr. Doom. 1:34:16 So if you want, if you want some beef in the, the midfield there. And then up top he has Black Noir, [laughs] also from a show he shouldn't be watching. [laughs] Uh-huh. 1:34:25 He, he likes to say, he's like, "No, but he's different in the comics." I'm like, "Are you reading the comics?" He's like, "No." The comic's worse. I'm like, "Then how do you know about this?" The comic's worse. 1:34:34 Yeah, [laughs] and then up top... Yeah, up top he also has, uh, Evil Morty, also from a show he shouldn't be watching. 1:34:40 [laughs] But he, he did come up, he said Gustavo Fring as his manager, also from a show that I told him, "Don't tell your mom you're watching." That's wild. That's wild. [laughs] So good on him. 1:34:49 Well, she's- But he, he did mention-... well, she's gonna know he's watching it now. [laughs] Yeah. Well, he did mention... She doesn't... You think she's watching this? Get, get out of here. 1:34:55 Oh, she, I'm gonna send it to her. Uh, he did mention Mike Myers. Uh, Mike Myers as a, like, if you want, like, an N'Golo Kante type, like, Mike Myers is his- Wait, wait, do you mean Michael Myers? Kyle is right 1:35:06 on there. Michael Myers, yes. Mike Myers, Michael Myers. Yeah, you don't, you don't mean Austin Powers. You mean The Shape. No. No, Austin Powers is not a villain. The Shape. Austin Powers is not a villain. Okay. 1:35:13 Yes, I mean Michael Myers, the- Michael Myers... the, you know, the unkillable demon. The Shape. All right. And all it... So I went first. I'll hit... Uh, no, Dexter, what, what are your subs? 1:35:22 I've, I've got four subs that I could, I could sneak in. All right. My subs, see now see, I, I, I'm too eclectic. My, my, my team is too eclectic. 1:35:28 But I, I'll go, I'll, I'll just start with left back, Ellis from Die Hard. [laughs] Selfish. Just want, will do whatever he can to win. He can't, you can't trust him. He's coked up. He's, he's on, he's, he's on hits. 1:35:40 He might get, might get a yellow card real quick. Oh, he's getting a, he's getting a red real quick. All right. [laughs] That's that. 1:35:47 Um- That's the second player on Dexter's squad who's getting sent off in the first five minutes. [laughs] There's no way he's beating me. It's not happening. He, he, he's a... Yeah, he'll be a problem. 1:35:56 Uh, defensive midfielder, Colonel Lockjaw from One Battle After Another, if you've seen that movie. [laughs] Shit, goddamn. All right? You are- He's a veteran... yeah. He comes on like a veteran. Yeah. You know? 1:36:06 Defensive midfielder. You are a crazy person. You are a crazy person. All right? I love it. Um, midfield. Now this is wild. Asami from the movie Audition, the, the chick from Audition. That's crazy. A child. 1:36:18 Do not know that. That I do not know. Anybody knows that? Yeah, she's on my bench too. No, I don't know that one. Yeah. Great child. [laughs] Yeah. All right? Midfielder. Deceptive midfield. 1:36:27 You don't know, she's deceptive. Uh- Don't, don't wrong her, because you will pay... goals. Yeah. Uh, uh, striker, another, uh, a sub striker, uh, the lady from Strange Darling, if you've seen that movie. 1:36:42 [laughs] Crazy movie. And- You, you are eclectic... uh, no, really wild. Um, a, a striker or a midfielder, Hans Landa from, um- Oh... uh, Inglourious Basterds. Yes. All right? Yes. All right? 1:36:57 Uh, then I, I, I, I got crazy. Uh, midfielder, Nino Brown from New Jack City. All right? [laughs] Oh, Jesus. The man ran a drug empire in the projects, you know what I'm saying? 1:37:07 [laughs] Um, striker, absolutely a striker, Bishop from Juice. That was Tupac. [laughs] All right? He was a wild man. He ha- he's selfish. He'd be a great sty- striker. [laughs] And the last one would be, um, 1:37:22 also from a, a hip hop, uh, movie, Paid in Full, Rico, a striker played by Cam'ron. Dogs... Good movies. [laughs] But these are selfish guys who- You got-... who gotta be strikers. They can't be nothing but strikers. 1:37:34 [laughs] You got a lot of strikers on the bench, man. Yeah, man. Yeah. Yeah. 'Cause they're selfish players, man. You need those guys who just wanna get the ball. They're hustlers. A lot of bench work. 1:37:42 A lot of bench work. Yeah. Yeah. I, I only had four subs 'cause I, my team is so good I don't need to, I don't need to sub in a lot of people. 1:37:48 Now, look, if I need, um, say Homelander's getting out of pocket and I need, I need to sub him out but I need a little more beef, give me Zangief from, uh, Street Fighter... jump running there Oh my gosh. 1:38:01 [laughs] I need a little more beef there. Now- Oh my goodness... 1:38:06 now say I want, uh, th- this guy, this guy, and this is one you picked, Dex, he could be, he could be in the attacking mid or he could be up striker, he could be up top. There's a lot of places. He's... You know what? 1:38:16 He's zen, he cares about a lot of stuff. Give me Bodhi from, uh, Point Break as well. It's crazy, man. Yeah. We clearly watch the same movies, yo. We do. We're old. We're both old. But our, our movies overlap. 1:38:27 [laughs] Damn right. Um, I got Thanos where I, honestly just use him where you need. Probably in the back line. I'd probably take out Bennett and end up with a back line of Thanos, Anton Chigurh, and Zangief. 1:38:39 But- [laughs] I can't believe you picked Bennett. That's crazy. But good. [laughs] He's great. That was a good one. That's why I also pick. Yeah. And then, look, I need someone creative, I need someone fleet of foot. 1:38:48 I need someone who, uh, is not afraid to go in for the kill and can run her shit. Probably using her in the attack. I'd probably take the Predator out, maybe even T-1000 for her. Give me O-Ren Ishii from Kill Bill. 1:39:05 That's good. O-Ren I- That's good... Ishii. O-Ren Ishii... That's a good one. There we go. That's a good one. That's it. I like that. And that's all I need on my bench I like that pick. That's all I need on my bench. 1:39:13 That's, that's a- Yeah. Yeah, I like that pick. That's a good one. Also, on my bench I have the Sonic Screwdriver, and I've now destroyed all his stupid Daleks. That's not how it works. 1:39:24 I don't even know what's going on there. That's- That's y'all, that's y'all Doctor Who talk. It's two, it's two things from that show. That's all that matters. It's not how it works. [laughs] I, I... 1:39:32 Last time I watched Doctor Who, I was 10 years old. It was the, the guy with the big, gray afro, curly afro. Yeah. [laughs] Uh, you know who I'm talking about? Yep. With the big... It was Cyber and the big, curly afro. 1:39:42 Kevin, Kevin knows exactly who you're talking about. Kevin knows exactly who you're talking about. Yeah. I, I was 10, okay? Like, the, the- That's the last time I watched Doctor Who... the, the fourth Doctor, I think. 1:39:48 And 50 years later, it's still on. [laughs] It's still on. Can you believe that? Or the fifth. It's crushing. Uh, the- The- The most recent Doctor is non-binary. Crushing it. They're doing the, they're doing the work. 1:40:01 [laughs] What's your bench? We're not getting into technical, we're not getting into technicalities. The bench, man. Go to your bench, man. So I've got, uh... 'Cause, you know, I, I need, 1:40:14 I need players in the middle, uh, who can think through a game, who can just- Who are not mountains and who can walk. [laughs] So- All right... 1:40:24 to bring on, you know, if, if Sauron's not getting it done on the day, I'm bringing on Keyser Söze. All right. There you go. Ooh, Keyser Söze. All right. I can see that. Keyser Söze. Thinking man. A thinking man player. 1:40:35 Bring the, bring the... So he's limp. You, you're bringing on the actual Keyser Söze, not Verbal Kint, is what you're saying. Right? Yeah, 'cause he doesn't actually have a limp. Yeah, it's all, it's all a ploy. 1:40:43 Like, I, I'm just making sure. I'm just making sure, 'cause Verbal Kint has a limp. And he's gonna limp away every time he gets fouled, so he gets everybody booked. 1:40:48 Oh, so you've brought up a guy who's gonna get red carded. [laughs] See, now that, she's actually, you're thinking of the route with things like that. All right. 1:40:53 And then next to him, if, again, if, if, if the, if the Dalek for some reason, you know- 'Cause it's an alien robot... gets, gets, gets done in for the day. He's just not, you know, he's, he's not on it today. 1:41:05 He's getting leggy. I'm, I'm putting Thanos in there because the man is just massive and a destroyer. Just- You know what? Thanos, he's the first triple. He's the first triple pick, right? 1:41:14 Just, just- He's the first guy on all teams... destroyer of, of things. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Uh, then I've got, uh, up top as a, as my number 10 replacement, um, I mean, he's not, he's not very mobile anymore. But, 1:41:32 uh, incredibly powerful, probably the most powerful, um, force user of all time. It's gotta be Darth Vader. Ah, [laughs] there you go. All right. All right. He's just, he's moving play- You know what? 1:41:43 He- He's moving players around the pitch. He's, he's putting the ball where it needs to go. He's force choking the ref when he tries to give him a, [laughs] a red card. Like- He, he reminds me- And then-... 1:41:54 of like a Zaroo, like a late, late stage Zaroo. Except you can force choke people. [laughs] Yeah. He's, he's, he's not gonna beat anybody off the dribble, but, 1:42:05 you know, he's, he's gonna put the ball where it needs to be, and he's always gonna show up in the right spot, and you're like, "Oh, how did he get over there?" I mean, force power. Like, he... 1:42:12 I had him on my list and I didn't pick him, but the force power is, I think we're, we are underrating the fact that he could just put the ball in the net with a finger flick and have not touched it. 1:42:23 And then, uh, and then I got, uh, as my left wing, uh, backup, uh, another, another double pick, just a wild card. Crazy man, Joffrey Ba- Baratheon. Like- Oh, wow... the two of you. You two nerds. You two nerds. Joffrey. 1:42:39 Joffrey. Joffrey gotta be on the pitch somewhere, man. He's a lunatic. He's gotta be on the pitch somewhere. He's a lunatic. He got slapped- He's just, just chaos merchant. Like, what you need on the left wing... 1:42:46 he got slapped by a dwarf. He got slapped by a dwarf and put in his place. Are you gonna put him on a pitch with Thanos- Well, he's, he's psychotic... and Anton Chigurh? Let me ask you a question. 1:42:55 How many dwarfs on the pitch you got? St- Uh, uh, you know what? No, no, I'm not worried. Then I'm not worried. [laughs] Then I'm not worried. Move on. He... 1:43:02 You, you guys both chose the person with the most punchable face in the world to be on your teams. You seem like- Hey, man. If you meant to- We're winning, man. We're winning... 1:43:11 if, if your goal to get, like, six red cards on the other team because they just keep tackling him- Pardon me... then smart choice. Smart choice on that. Pardon me, friend, but have you watched any Premier League lately? 1:43:22 They are all the most punchable people. Have you s- Yeah. They're all pretty punchable. Yeah. Have you seen Alejandro Garnacho? Oh, man. They're, they're- Enzo Fernandez? Totally punchable... 1:43:31 I think you, think you forgot about Enzo Fernandez. Definitely. Those, yeah, lot of faces. Also, by the way, there was a moment where I wanted to pick Enzo Fernandez as one of my midfielders. 1:43:40 [laughs] That would be funny. As just biggest villain. [laughs] That'd be funny. Oh, this was awesome. This was a great idea. Let's get out of here. It was fun. Uh, if you're new listener, like, subscribe. 1:43:53 Um, drop us comments in YouTube. Give us, you know, the five stars on whatever podcast app you might be listening to. Yeah, all the things. You know the deal, guys. Join us at The Predictor, playfantasypredictor.com. 1:44:07 Uh, play against us, predict the outcomes of the Premier League games. Uh, make your own villains 11. Make your own Disney 11. Make your own whoever 11. Make your own, uh, your best friends 11. 1:44:19 Go to playfantasypredictor.com/lineup and, yeah, build a lineup. Drop it in the, in the, in the comments. Let us know what you think. 1:44:30 Um, obviously we all know that my starting 11 is the best because- [laughs] Get out of here. Get... You have a mountain. You have [laughs] a literal mountain. I could dribble around it. [laughs] You have an eyeball. 1:44:42 Uh, how long do you think it'll take you- You have an eyeball... how long do you think it'll take you to dribble around a mountain, friend? Easily. I could pass around. 1:44:49 How long did it take for Fro- how long did it take for Frodo to get to Mordor? One does not simply walk into Mordor. One does not simply walk around Sauron. I've got, I've got two guys who could morph. 1:44:57 I have two morph-able guys, Agent Smith and T-1000, could just turn into whatever I need them to be. And he... And I have a guy who, if he sees you, commands the Witch King and about 1:45:09 700 other horrible atrocities- Boom... to send your way. So- Check this out. You wanna know my, you wanna know my, you want- Moving on... know Loki's counter, you know what Loki's counter is? Killgrave, 1:45:17 or Kill- was it Killgore? Killgore. Killgrave. Killgore goes and stands next to Sauron- Killgrave. Wait, which one?... whispers into him- That's Killgrave... 1:45:23 and now he controls Sauron, and now he controls your whole team. You can't control Sauron. Mind control. I have a mind control person. He doesn't have a mind. He's an eye. We've discussed this. He's an eye. 1:45:31 [laughs] He is. All right, next time- [laughs] I think next time we're doing, uh, humanoid Disney. I played this wrong. How about humanoid Disney next time, right? Like, it has to be actual humans, Disney style. From... 1:45:41 I don't know. So it doesn't have to be villains- All right... but we could, we'll do human Disney characters. All right. Human Disney. 1:45:47 Join us next week, uh, when I develop the best human Disney character lineup and- W-... Sean is mad, so he tells me it's awful. Yo, what are you talking about? Love you all. You, you picked- Guys... 1:45:56 you picked a mountain. [laughs] L- All right, man. Love y'all. Love y'all. D- despite, despite your ridiculous protests, I still, uh, have had an excellent time chatting with you guys tonight. Yeah. 1:46:08 And, uh, be good, stay safe. Of course. Try to- [laughs] Try to watch some football. Yes. There's not much out there, but, um, yeah. Oh, US versus Chile coming up. Oh. USA, Chile on, uh, September 29th, tomorrow. 1:46:23 Awesome. Oh. We'll be back next week. We'll talk about USA, Chile. Um, hopefully it's a USA win. Mm-hmm. We'll talk about d- Shout out Bracey. Shout out Marcelo... humanoid Disney starting 11. Shout out Bracey. 1:46:33 Love you, buddy. Chile, you know that's my second team. Hell yeah. Love you guys. All right, guys. Take it easy. Go get some sleep. He's the best. All right. Love you. Go home. Bye. Good night, everyone. Bye. Easy.
